Sunday unloading to escape Tariffs . All day Sunday the Thames docks presented a scene of unprecedented activity as ships were unloaded and goods transferred to barges and hurried ashore to escape the new tariffs . Unloading milk from the President Harding the American liner which docked for the first time at the King George Vdocks . 28 February 1932 30s, 30's, 1930s, 1930's, thirties, nineteen thirties