Two hundred years ago, the Thames could cater to only 600 vessels at its mooring piers, yet sometimes as many as 1,775 sailing ships were waiting in the port to discharge their cargo.
Pirms divsimt gadiem Londonas ostā pietauvošanās vietas bija paredzētas tikai kādiem 600 kuģiem, bet mēdza gadīties, ka ostā uz izkraušanu gaidīja veseli 1775 kuģi.