i132 Avucust 24, 1907. OPENING OF THE LARGE DRYDOCK AT LEAGUE ISLAND. The handsome drydock at League Island, after much delay, has been opened to the nation’s warships. So large is this new dock, that although the “Kearsarge,” the first warship to be towed into the dock, is 368 feet long, with a… … powers are be- toil, and the mas- stowed through the tering of engi- medium of ani- neering difficulties mals, the former that were well are believed to be nigh baffling. Two or three of the sub-contractors engaged upon the work were forced to suspend, unexpected physical problems arising which…
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