COALING AT NAGASAKI HARBOR

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Nine people out of who go to Japan land in the first instance at Yokohama or Nagasaki,
both of which places have been immortalised times out of number by writers of many nations.
p24 "Japan in Transition" J.STAFFORD RANSOME 1899

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Nagasaki has been left behind by Yokohama and Kobe, and exports little to foreign markets; indeed,if it were not for the convenience of
coaling, it is doutful whether the liners would call here at all.
Nagasaki coal is cheap, because the mines are not far away; but it is soft and dirty,and decidedly inferior to the Hokkaido article.
The vessels coal from barges in the harbor, and women do much of the work of carryig baskets, a few men shoveling and directing. For once, the babies are left at home.
pp320-321"JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE" ANNA C.HARTSHORNE VOL.2 1904

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Here the low flat coal barges were rowed out to, and lining up, formed a platform on both sides of the big steamer,
where about two hundred Japanese, men and women-some women had their babies strapped on their back-had erected a stage of
ladders of bamboo poles, where one person was stationed on each rung all the way up to the third deck from the water,
and the coal was passed in little matting baskets from the barges on the water, up thru all these hands to the deck where it was tossed
in the bunkers, the last hand throwing the baskets back down to the fillers in the barges below, to again take up its endless chain.
No one changes position, but there is achatte kept up all time.
Here these little people, back from coal, worked from morning to midnight for two days like bees around a hive at the small sum of twenty-five cents a day, coaling a big ocean liner of 17,000 tons for its voyage around the world.
p57"A WHIRL AROUND THE WORLD" MINNIE TISING NORFLEET 1918

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Coaling at Nagasaki habor (39)
Three Big Liners (1)
Thomas (6)
Tenyo maru (1)
Cleveland (4)
Logan (3)
Manchuria (1)
Minnesota (6)
Sherman (1)
Sheridan (3)
Warren (2)
Jules Ferry (1)

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