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Sunday, 21 October 2018

British floating coal bunker station launched according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1904 no. 5

shipyAn item reported that on 27 February at Wallsend-on-Tyne a floating coal bunker station was launched with a  capacity of 11.000 ton of lump coal and 1.000 tons in coal sacks. The bunker station was fitted out with 7 electric driven feeders and 80 slides to automatically filling the lump coal into the sacks.