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Kumara Times, Issue 1091, 30 March 1880, Page 4

two important dockyards which “ u L~'® TB ? Rn Empire already possesses-—one at Kiel, in the Baltic, the other at Wilhelmshaven, opening into the German Ocean-a third will shortly be added. The works at the Imperial Dockyard at Dantzic have now progressed so far as to warrant the expecta* tion of the docks being opened in the spring of the coming year. The dockyard comprises an iron floating dock, the dock basin, and three radial slips in connection with the ime/' ?k® floating dock has a length of “®i* m the centre line, ana a breadth of 112 feet, by a height of 48 feet 6 inches, of which 12 feet 6 inches are absorbed by the pontoon. At its comoletion it will be permanently stationed in the Vistula, by the side of the dock-gate. On docking a ship, the dock is towed to a deeper part of the river, and partly immersed by filling 60 of its bo watertight compartments. The vessel to be dockpd is then hauled into the floating anchored to the cradle at the bottom of the dock, and the latter raised again by pumping the water oht of the 50 compartments. ■■ The. pumping out of the water is effected.in four hours by two two-cylinder engines, driving four centrifugal pomps. The steam pf six atmospheres required for feeding the engines is supplied by four ' The dock has a floating power of 6600 tods, and'is -consequently calculated to raise any ship, fully equipped, of the German navy, the Konig Wilhelm alone excepted. The entire material required for the dock was furnished by, German firms. Its whole weight, when completely fitted np, will be 8000 tons; In case the repairs of the docked vessel are of a smaller nature— such as cleaning and painting of a ship’s bottom, for m stance.—-tfiey may bei executed in a floating dock; bat should the .work required to be done be heavy, or the repairs necessitate the hanlmg bf the ship ashore, the floating dock, with the vessel inside, is towed into the dock-basin.

The clerks of the: Courts at Westport, Keefton, .and, A Laura, have been. appointed officers to receive applications for 1 ases, &c., and maps of the -blocks open, for selection may be seen at the several offices <