A Treatise On The Principles And Practice Of Dock Engineering
Forfatter: Brysson Cunningham
År: 1904
Forlag: Charles Griffin & Company
Sted: London
Sider: 784
UDK: Vandbygningssamlingen 340.18
With 34 Folding-Plates and 468 Illustrations in the Text
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DOCK ENGINEERING.
width of sheds will, accordingly, be regulated almost entirely by the land
available for the purpose, and no other limit, apparently, can be suggested.
From the smallest dimension consistent with practical utility, sheds have
been constructed to such great widths as 150 feet at Liverpool, 190 feet at
Manchester, and 196 feet at Havre. In the case of Manchester, however, it
should be pointed out that the shed is traversed at its centre by a roadway,
included, therefore, within the roof.
As indicative of the extremely heterogeneous character of some cargoes
the following analyses of representative cases will be interesting and not
inappropriate :—
List of cargo discharged in London, Sept., 1897, from s.s. “Milwaukee,”
470 feet by 56 feet by 34 feet 9$ inches*:—
514 head of cattle.
132 horses.
640 sheep.
18,412 bushels of oats.
1,209 bales of hay.
13,149 sacks of flour.
51,629 pieces of deal.
16,328 boards.
4,398 pieces of lumber.
195 tierces of lard.
200 bags of stareh.
189,200 bushels of corn.
20,025 boxes of cheese.
399 cases of apples.
11 cases of machinery.
16,737 deal ends.
5,723 pieees of bircli plank.
134 radiators.
830 pails of lard.
5,730 bags of grape sugar.
This is said to be the largest cargo discharged in London up to that date.
In this condition the ship had 11,100 tons dead weight. It is reported she
was discharged in 66 working hours.
This may be compared with the list of cargo carried by the s.s. “Oevic”
on her maiden voyage in 1894 : —
500 head of cattle.
2,330 sheep.
9,061 bales of cotton.
14,778 pails, tierces, barrels, and
firkins of lard.
3,006 boxes of bacon and ham.
1,000 bundles of shooks.
175 boxes of meats.
11,642 bags of copper matte.
6,532 pieces of oak.
885 barrels of oil.
5 barrels of bladders.
3 coops of fowls.
100 barrels of glucose.
803 cases of canned meat.
100 tierces of beef.
10 cases of varnish.
27 cases of axes.
33 cases of woodware.
20 barrels of metal polish.
13 cases of agricultural imple-
ments.
120 barrels of grease and oil.
250 barrels of scale.
1,800 sacks of oilcake.
2,352 pigs of lead.
160 boxes of cheese.
1,250 sacks of flour.
1,000 barrels of resi».
5 barrels of rope covering.
5,000 bags of grape sugar.
4,897 oak staves.
* De Russett on “ Recent Improvements in Cargo Steamers,” Eng. Conf., London,
1899. —Vide Engineering, June 16, 1899.