The Turks drove the refugees to a dockside warehouse where fishermen stored their catch.
Extra fire crews were called in from London and further afield to deal with a separate unrelated fire in a wood pile on a nearby dockside.
They are lined up in ranks in Hanford's long, earthen pits awaiting a future mass burial, sitting in regimented rows on a Sayda Bay dockside, or floating on the waters of the Sea of Japan, shackled to a pier at the Pavlovks sub base near Vladivostok.
"Mary is my insurance policy," said Greta Aeby, a biologist who works in a dockside laboratory on Coconut Island and studies coral disease throughout the Pacific.
At a dockside celebration on Sunday at Shin Nishinomiya Yacht Harbor, Mr. Horie told the gathering: "The time has come for us to shift from fossil fuels.
Wherever the Amistad is berthed, docents will be on hand to answer questions, as will a dockside exhibit describing life for the captives aboard.
Their amazing tale: Just the day before, they had fired the captain but met a replacement named "Andrea Libovich" in a dockside cafe in Naples, hiring him on the spot.
On my first tour of Antrepo, the main venue, in a dockside former warehouse, I hated the mélange of, for the most part, noisy, flashing installations and videos.
Striding around a dockside yard where his "decontamination unit" works, he keeps an eye on 11 workers who are stooped over drills, bolts and iron mallets to repair oil-containment booms damaged by waves and strong currents in the gulf.
The trend has also helped anglers carry on a tradition usually reserved for barroom or dockside conversations -- embellishing the truth.
