lifted or supported simply by in 1887. She is built of steel and displaces 3,090 tons. the displacement of the pontoon, which, consequently, A Higber Peak tban Mount St, Slias. Her length is 270 feet 10 inches ; beam, 42 feet 7 inches ; must be sufficient to carry the weight of the ship, that The… … THE HAVANA FLOATING DRY DOCK. single screw ship, her engines of 4,800 horse power driv- the floating dock. This requires a depth of water Cook's Inlet country, asserts that it has discovered the ing her at the rate of 17^ knots an hour. The arma- which is sometimes unattainable. The Havana dock…
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