Sunday unloading to relieve crowded docks as ships rush to London to avoid tariffs . All day Sunday the King George V docks presented a scene of unprecedented activity as ships were unloaded and goods hurried ashore to escape the new tariffs which become effective Tuesday . Unloading tinned milk on barges from the SS President Harding an American liner which docked in the Thames for the first time . 28 February 1932 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties