Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 51
The pack-ing and the sliding ways constitute the cradle,and it is fastened to the ship by stout ropes.Along its length, at intervals of about eighteeninches, are big wedges, the points of which areinserted between the sliding ways and the pack-ing. A rope about the thickness of a clothes-line runs… … ~ ran^tt DIAGRAM SHOWING WHAT THE SHIP RESTS IPON. i. The Packing. 2. The Sliding Ways. 3. The Stationary Ways. 4. The Keel-block. 5. Wedges. 6. The Props. 7. Piling. 8. Level of the Ground. position, nearly sixty barrels being necessary fora ship like the St. Louis. The cradle setssnugly against…
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