A LENS ON VANCOUVER'S PAST

S.S. AXELDYK [at Ballantyne Pier] 
October 10, 1961
CVA 447-3051.1

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Breakbulk is a commodity that must be loaded in a ship’s cargo hold piece by piece: a time-consuming, back-breaking process. Goods may be packaged in bags, cases, crates, drums, barrels, or kept together by baling and placed onto pallets. 

 

AXELDYK’s cargo gear of masts, kingposts and derricks can be seen as well as the huge tarp sheltering the forward hold from the foul October weather. Note the Ballantyne Pier shore crane visible midship.