Penarth Dock, South Wales - 150 years - the heritage and legacy  
Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

Volume Three - The Pontoon Era - The seamen's pay strike of 1911 . . .

1911 – The “Lady Jocelyn” anchored off Penarth Head
1911 – The “Lady Jocelyn” anchored off Penarth Head which became the home for the strike-breakers. Tupper and the seamen had to try to stop the pleasure-boat-men of Weston-Super-Mare from taking boatloads of strike-breakers to the "Lady Jocelyn" at a guinea a time. His tactic was to allow the coal tippers and trimmers, whose position in the strike was strategic, to work. If they worked, the ships could be coaled and could steam out to the Lady Jocelyn, an old hulk moored off Penarth Head, which acted as a 'blackleg' labour depot presumably to intimidate them. [061]

 
1911 – Aboard the “Lady Jocelyn”

1911 – Aboard the “Lady Jocelyn” - The police are out in force. Undoubtedly, it would have been safer aboard than in the dark streets and dank dwellings of "Dagger Town" and "Tiger Bay" where feelings were running at fever pitch!

Aren’t British Bobbies unique in the World? Look at the police officers in the deckchairs at the front of the picture. The officer on the left looks to be having “forty-winks” and give that officer on the right an ice-cream; he’s relaxed and on holiday!

Would the cook who Tupper claims he sent aboard to doctor the food of the strike-breakers please raise their hand in the air! [061]

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