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3 unusual facts about Port of Tilbury


HMS Abatos

There was another PLUTO training establishment at Tilbury, under the name HMS Abastor.

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

He transported it in 688 crates from Tilbury Docks to the USA, where it was re-constructed using the timbers of a wrecked English ship, on a hill overlooking Long Island Sound near Greenwich, Connecticut.

Joseph Jenkins

Having saved the fare, he departed Maldon by rail on 23 November 1894, and embarked on the ss Ophir which docked at Tilbury docks on 5 January 1895.


Thwaite, Suffolk

He transported it in 688 crates from Tilbury docks to the USA, where it was reconstructed using the timbers of a wrecked English ship, on a hill overlooking Long Island Sound near Greenwich, Connecticut.


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