Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 380
kg Q DOCKING SHIPS. 377 ^uM b^^Offi … 378 DOCKING SHIPS engines are charged with water, and the ranis D forced out to the full extent of their stroke. By thismeans the mainstraps E are drawn towards the head of the dock, and the cradle of swinging beamslifted up, so as to allow of the adjustment of the keel-blocks w w and chock-blocks…
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