Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I

FLOATING DOCKS. 417 typ© will be readily understood on refer- ring to the lowest diagram in Fig. 7. The Callao dock and the 36,000-ton Hamburg dock are examples of the bolted sectional design. The mobility of the floating dock has proved their destination ; but the more usual method now adopted is to tow the completed dock oversea. Reference has already been made to the floating dock transported in this way from the east coast of the United States to one of the Philippines (a distance of 14,000 Fig. 11.—STETTIN DOCK, OF 11,000 TONS LIFTING CAPACITY. BUILT AND DELIVERED WITHIN 7| MONTHS TO THE STETTIN VULCAN COMPANY BY MESSRS. SWAN, HUNTER, AND WIGHAM RICHARDSON, OF NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. In this dock the liner Spree was docked, cut in half, and lengthened. Remarkable Voyages of Floating Docks. of great value in more than one instance where, owing to changing conditions of trade, the dock has had to be removed from one port to another. Floating docks have been con- structed in England for use on the river Volga and in Japan, shipped in pieces, and re-erected at miles), probably th© most remarkable towing feat ever accomplished. Other docks have been towed from this country to Havana (Cuba), Durban (Natal), Port of Spain (Trini- dad), Lagos (West Africa), Para (Brazil), Bermuda, etc., while the large dock for Callao (Peru) has but recently reached that distant port on the west coast of South America. Note.—Thanks are due to Messrs. Clark and Standfield, the Floating Dock Specialists, and to Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, the eminent Ship and Floating Dock Builders, for their help in illustrating this article. (1,408) 27 VOL. II.