THE CALLIOPE DOCK

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1769, 17 February 1888, Page 3

THE CALLIOPE DOCK

» ■■■■ The Gulli pc D->ck at Auckland, which wa« opened yesterday by ; is Exoelluooy the (ioyernor, ia one of th« Urgent graving docks' xq th* world, the following in•e'eßtin< particulars theivanent are pub lis ed by the " North Ota>jo Time," to which pap~r 'Ivy have been furniahoi by an Oaraaru resident who has recently paid a visit to tho Nor.hern City :— The dock m built on the Nor'h Shore, n»nrly nbre tst of Queen street wWf . its flo^r is 500 t long, and the apro < is I6?t, hut with the slope at tie end, the d>>ofc woul t accommodate a ve-ts- 1 nearly 550 <eet lo tr Ther« is a • epih cf 33 feet at hi<h witer over the *i!l. The flo-r at tho boitoin of tho dock is 40 feet wido, nnd between the oopes a' the top it is 1 10 feet wide 'i ho eutrame is 80 f^et win© The fm'sson that apts w a gate m 83 feet wi Je^ 15 feet lf>ne, anc! feet 10 i chos m height. 6efo r e fuffi ii^nt love! i>roundfcould he got to mak« the dock 7i,00() ytrda of cl.y had t'» be removed, and it requ red 36,000 yards t>f clay to He excavated Two nd a half millions of bricks were roquiied for th 1^ invert at tho bottom of tin dock, the radius of t»o invert h^inp: 140 feet. Oq the clay at the bottom of the do k there is a 'ayer of oao foot of • oncret^, then seven tierß of brio^s on edge, «n • over tie thicks th- re is another layer of 3 : fect 6 >■ cues of'conbr»?te, tha ooacre^e bein^ G to. 1. In thf bottom of tho dobk there «re 99 blo-ks, 5 teet apa't, f ; rtho vesseU' ke I* to rest upon. The dck h-l^a 40,000 tons of water, or 1 400 000 cubr y rda 'I his water ia pumped out io £gu7 and a ha'f 'hours by t^<> enei c? t Tn« we ! q are 52 foot deep, the pampi' are 4, fleet 'm diarae'pr. and dave a s roke of 5 feet. Ea<:K Btroke of the engine tbrQwa out 126 cubic ''eet or 78*^ •"'• ; n«.