Repro ID: H3849
Title: Deck gang discharging Chittagong tea from the Clan Munroe (1918).
Description: Discharging Chittagong tea from the 'Clan Munroe' (1918) at the Clan Line Quay at Tilbury. A large proportion of the tea arriving in the port was transhipped by lighters to private riverside wharfs such as Butler's Wharf. Chittagong today is the sole auction centre for Bangladesh's tightly regulated tea trade.
Creator: Unknown
Date: March 1938
Credit line: National Maritime Museum, London
