ANOTHER CANAL ENTERPRISE.

Kumara Times, Issue 1137, 21 May 1880, Page 3

ANOTHER CANAL ENTERPRISE.

According to the plans prepared by HerrDahlstrom, to whom a preliminary concession for the enterprise has been granted, the proposed ship canal from the Baltic to the North Sea will be traced from, the Bay of Kiel to Brunsbuttel, in the estuary of the Elbe. Its depth throughout is to be 20 ft. 9 in.; its width at the surface of the water 160 feet, and at the bottom 04 feet, the banks consequently having a very gentle slope, i Provision will moreover be made, by tne adoption of a peculiar system of locks and reservoirs, for increasing the depth of the water to 25 or 26 feet whenever it may be desileable to do so; and this depth will allow of the passage through the canal of the heaviest German ironclad afloat—the Konig Wilhehn, a vessel of 9603 tons displacement} and the largest ship in the German navy, drawing only 26 feet. The canal can, it is calculated, be completed in six years, and will, it is estimated, cost £3,750,0(10, or about two millions and a quarter less than fc.be estimates made a few years ago of the cost of constructing a canal 31 feet deep and 224 feet wide at the surface of the water. In size, it may be added, the proposed Baltic aud North Sea Canal does not compare unfavourably with the Suez Canal, the width of this at the surface of the water being 172| feet, the width of the bottom 70. feet, and the depth about 2o feet 3 inches.

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