Ports and Docks: Their History, Working, and National ImportanceMethuen, 1904 - 179 sider |
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Side 35
... lower edge the gates are , when closed , forced by the tremendous pressure of the water in the dock or in the lock , as the case may be , firmly against the sill . The gates are thus made practically water - tight at their lower edge ...
... lower edge the gates are , when closed , forced by the tremendous pressure of the water in the dock or in the lock , as the case may be , firmly against the sill . The gates are thus made practically water - tight at their lower edge ...
Side 36
... lower into the river a vessel which has to come out . Here the process is reversed . The sluices at the river end of the lock are opened , the gates at the dock end of the lock groan and strain to- gether , and the water in the lock ...
... lower into the river a vessel which has to come out . Here the process is reversed . The sluices at the river end of the lock are opened , the gates at the dock end of the lock groan and strain to- gether , and the water in the lock ...
Side 39
... lower part of the walls built under water . This means either working under compressed air or behind costly caissons . So that it is easy to understand the great cost of the river quays at Antwerp - three times , or even five times ...
... lower part of the walls built under water . This means either working under compressed air or behind costly caissons . So that it is easy to understand the great cost of the river quays at Antwerp - three times , or even five times ...
Side 75
... lower . When the depth - the navigable depth - of a rise is referred to as being so many feet , the measure- ment assumes low - water springs . Owing to the operation of the wind , or to the descent of flood waters from the land , the ...
... lower . When the depth - the navigable depth - of a rise is referred to as being so many feet , the measure- ment assumes low - water springs . Owing to the operation of the wind , or to the descent of flood waters from the land , the ...
Side 99
... Lower River duties of the Thames Conservancy , shall be taken over and adopted by a public trust in the interests of the port , the trust to be empowered to obtain the needful funds by port dues on every package which enters the Thames ...
... Lower River duties of the Thames Conservancy , shall be taken over and adopted by a public trust in the interests of the port , the trust to be empowered to obtain the needful funds by port dues on every package which enters the Thames ...
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Ports and Docks: Their History, Working, and National Importance Douglas Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1904 |
Ports and Docks: Their History, Working, and National Importance Douglas Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1904 |
Ports and Docks: Their History, Working, and National Importance Douglas Owen Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1904 |
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advantage Albert Dock already amongst Antwerp average barges Bermuda big ship Bristol canal cargo carried century channel charges cheap closed docks Clyde coal colliers competition construction Continental ports cost costly course craft cranes deepening depth despatch discharge doubt DOUGLAS OWEN dredgers dredging example excavated facilities fact feet floating freight German Glasgow graving graving dock greater greatly Hull importance increased industry inland keel land less Liverpool load lock Manchester manufacturing matter means ment miles navigable needs open quays overside Pierre Baudin population Port of London pounds produce profit prosperity rail railway companies railway rates railway-trucks result rise rival river quays sheds ship's shipowners shore side sill sort Southampton steamers stream Suez Canal supplies Thames tidal tidal basins tide tion tonnage tons trade traffic transhipments trucks undertaking voyage waterways West India West India Dock wharfingers wharves whilst
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Side 52 - The Trinity House" shall mean the master, wardens, and assistants of the guild, fraternity, or brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the parish of Deptford Strond, in the county of Kent...
Side 59 - The Earl of Chatham, with his sword drawn Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strachan ; Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em, Stood waiting for the Earl of Chatham.
Side 78 - ... as near as they could guess, which lay in the water as upon the earth, without moving this way or that. Dishes, likewise, and wooden buckets, they set a swimming ; but it proved a stilling, for move they would not any way, by force of stream or water, so that it seemed the water was indeed asleep or dead, or had changed or borrowed the stability of the earth. ' The watermen, not content with this evidence, would needs make the utmost of the...
Side 3 - ... and of many a gallant fight which has brought us an undying fame. For our language is impregnated with the salt of the sea, and with the slang of the ship. And though many of such expressions are now used in forgetfulness of their nautical origin, there still remain plenty which need no interpreter, even though altered conditions may have robbed them of much of their original force and truth. ' Any port in a storm,' for example, was, in the case of the ships of ancient times, a proposition of...
Side 15 - I and other distant ports, London's average is only 878 tons, as against Liverpool's 1,867 tons. Glasgow's average, like that of Liverpool, is also * Ie, August, 1903. high — 1,471 tons. Hull, whose trade, still more than London's, is with European ports, has an average of only 802 tons. Liverpool's import tonnage, though by no means entirely attributable to her trade with the New World, is largely so accounted for, almost all the cotton from the States coming to the Mersey ; whilst the frequent...
Side 78 - ... an hour very near ; their boats not so much as moved through any way, either upward or downward, the water seeming as plain, quiet, even and stable as a pavement under the arch where, if anywhere in the Thames, there must be moving, by reason of the narrowness of the place.
Side 70 - AS the Ships in the Employ of the East India Company are of a larger Size than other Vessels employed by Merchants in Trade, and many of them nearly equal in Bulk to Ships of the Line in the Royal Navy...
Side 79 - Greenwich, when it was heard so, nof onely clearly, but fearfully to the bridge ; and up he comes tumbling, roaring, and foaming in that furious manner, that it was horror unto all that beheld it. And as it gave sufficient notice to the eare of its comming, so it left sufficient satisfaction to the eye, that it was now come, having raised the water foure foote higher than the first tyde had done, foure foote by rule ! as by evident measure did appear, and presently ebbed in as hasty, confused, unaccustomed...