 The remainder would be retained as supplies for the numerous launches running about the harbor and that the local hospitals were also to get a quantity of it.During 1910 Joseph Weston, a master mariner, gave evidence at the Wood and Coal Laborers' Wages Board held at the Water Police Court that he had been in the coal trade 25 years and that he was the owner of the "Queen Bee" and the "Wyoming", (at that time, he once owned four vessels).He stated that he unloaded his vessels on the lump principle, and paid each man 17s per load and that the operation of unloading typically took about 15 hours.