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Jim Sapol Mannay

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Title Jim Sapol Mannay
Description Merchant Seamans card for Jim Sapol Mannay (Sipple), cousin of Benjamin Johnson and owner of the Black Seaman's hostel in Frances Street, Tiger Bay.

Source: National Archives. British Merchant Seaman Cards, 1918-1921, TNA/BT350
Item URL https://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/1275801
Date 23 March 1920
Community archive People's Collection Wales
Subject

'People and Family'

'OTHER: Community and Social'

'Waterways and Shipping'

Welsh history

bame history

merchant seaman

west african

Tiger Bay

1919 race riots

Newport Docks

Black History

Level Item
Author HistoricDockProject

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