A Treatise On The Principles And Practice Of Dock Engineering

400 DOCK ENGINEERING. may diive in under them from the strøet, and nine may at onø time be conveniently loaded from the floor level, which is the same as that of the loading stages. Besides this, the warehouse fronts serve the vehicular traffic. On the rebuilding of one of these sheds, which had been completely destroyed by fire in a short time, it was divided up by two fireproof walls. Ihe total length of sheds already built (in 1898) amounts to 5,052 feet, and they have a total area of 724,800 square yards. For unloading and storing cargoes of cotton, there is a shed on the north side of the dock, the floor of which is at street level on the water side, and rises gradually to the level of the loading platforms on the land side. This shed, built of wood and corrugated iron, and roofed with roofing paper, differs from the others, which are built of iron. Behind this shed is a storage warehouse, which is built in a similar manner. “Two grain warehouses were erected in 1896-97. One warehouse, on the quay, 558 feet long and 135 feet wide, has only one storey for the first third of its width towards the water side, while the remaining two-thirds are two storeys high. At the back of this warehouse, and separated by a street 66 feet wide, down which lines of railway pass, is a two-storey ware- house 886 feet long and 98 feet wide. The upper floors of both warehouses are intended chiefly for grain in bulk. The warehouse on the quay covers an area of 7,940 square yards, and the storage warehouse 6,110 square yards. They can store 18,000 tons in a manner usual for a lengthy peiiod, and 12,000 tons for the time usually adopted for grain in towns. The total cost amounted to about £56,100.” A section across Bremen Quays is given in figs. 385 and 386. Sheds at Hamburg. The sheds on the quays (figs. 387 and 388), where the sorting of the unloaded goods is generally done, are one storey high throughout; they are closed on the land side and open to the water. On the land side there are four or five lines of railway, on the two first of which trucks stand to be loaded. The goods unloaded from the sea-going ships, which are to be forwarded by rail, are dealt with on the land side of the sheds, while those to be sent to warehouses in the town by barge are dealt with by cranes on the water side. The water side is paved throughout, forming a roadway for vehicles. With the exception of those on the Sandthor Quay, all sheds are built of wood and roofed with roofing paper. The Sandthor Quay sheds have stone walls on the land side and are roofed with iron. The breadth of the sheds varies between 48 feet, on the Sandthor Quay, and 110 feet, on the Asia Quay. Kidderpur Dock Sheds, Calcutta.* “Cargo sheds have been constructed on both sides of the dock, each shed being 300 feet long by 120 feet wide. They are constructed in two * Bruce on “ The Kidderpur Dock Sheds, Calcutta,” Min. Proc. Inst. C.E., vol. cxxi.