424 



INDEX. 



Leak in foundations at Albert Docks, 



Hull, 79 



, Alexandra Docks, Hull, 94 



Legal quays and wharves, 1 

 Lifting-dock, hydraulic, 307 

 Lifting-pumps, 333 

 Limerick Dock dam, 76 

 Limnoria Terebrans, 345 

 Load on piles, 395 

 Location of docks, 4 

 Locks, 162 



, cost of, 360 



London oils, 350 



Low-water basin, Birkenhond, sluicing, 



283 



M 



Malta Dock, 196 

 Marine worms, 344 

 Masonry veneering, 112 

 Metal gates, 220 



sheeting for preserving timber, 348 



Middle Level coffer-dam, 49 

 Mitre-posts, 219 

 Mode of working slipways, 320 

 Moisture in wood, 353 

 Mount Stuart Dock, 190 

 Mud dock?, 167 



N 



New York, quay wall at, 124 

 Nipping of gates, 223 



Offsets at back of walls, 110 

 Off-shore floating dock, 300 

 Opening and closing gates, 224 



up works, Alexandra Docks, Hull, 



28 

 , Portsmouth Dockyard Extension, 



31 



, Southampton Tidal Basin, 35 



Outer dam at Portsmouth, 72 



Panama Canal locks, 174 

 Penttrth Dock?, 19 

 Tidal Harbour, 20 



| Piles, half-timber, 37 



i , friction on, 389 



I , ecrew, 393 



Plunger-pumps, 333 



Pola Basin walls, 157 



Dock, sheet-piling, 62 



Portsmouth Dockyard, dams at, 71 



Position of entrances, 11 



Preservation of iron, 378 

 I Preserving timber, 34S 



Pressure on ground under dock floors, 

 404 



Prevailing winds, 6 



Princes Dock, Bombay, quay wall, 138 



Principles governing design of entrances, 

 5 



Profile of walls, 109 



Propeller sluicing, 276 



Puddle, clay, thickness of, 38 



, clay for, 385 



Pump, or suction dredgers, 339 



Pumping, vibration caused by, 39 



water from docks, 332 



Q 



Quantity of creosote per foot cube of 



timber, 354 

 Quay at Bombay, 138 



at Brest, 143 



at Dublin, 146 



at Gourock, 141 

 at Greenock, 152 



at Rouen, 139 



at Spezzia, 155 



-^ , New York, 124 



on the Rhone, 150 



wall at Greenore, 112 



walls at Bordeaux, 135 



Queen's Dock, Glasgow, 22 

 Quoins, gate, 217, 218 



R 



Resistance on sliding slipways, 328 



to horizontal stress, 390 



Rise of gates, 222 



Risk of timber dams floating, 40 



Rollers, advantages of, 229 



, objections to, 228 



to gates, 227 



Rot in timber, :*47 

 Rouen, quay wall at, 139 



