gh to allow pumping engines in the main pontoon ceased working deflection was considerably less than when the battle- it to be sunk and hauled under the center structure, for forty-two minutes, so that with the entire pumping ship was lifted-from the water; but as already stated, literally fitting… … engineers—in fact, was not as great as that for which been somewhat shorter. In the self-docking tests each the three sections of the dock are connected and in allowance had been made. service, the connecting elements consist of 2-inch bolts pontoon was sunk, hauled out, pumped to the proper At the…
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