INDEX. 



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Routh Dock, Cardiff, 17 



Basin, Cardiff, 17 



Royal Albert Dock, Loodon, 27 



San Fernando Dock, Buenos Ay res, 240 



Scotch oils, 350 



Scouring Barry Dock entrance, 272 



by ship's propeller, 27G 



Calais entrance channel, 273 



Canada basin, Liverpool, 281 



Dunkirk entrance channel, 273 

 , duration of, 270 



Honfleur basin, 278 



in Avonmouth Dock entrance, 271 



low-water basin, Birkenhead, 283 



power of water, 267 



St. George's landing-stage, Liver- 

 pool, 273 



Thames Embankment landing- 

 places, 272 



Tilbury Dock entrance, 272 



Screw-piles, 393 



Sea-water, analysis of, 379 



salts, composition of, 379 



Securing heel-post, 219 



Segmental dams, 40 



Shallow dam at Portsmouth, 71 



Sheet-piling, 390 



at Pola, 62 



Shield, timber, at Rio, 41 



Single row of piles, 39 



Sites near sea, 5 



: for Imperial docks, 6 



Sliding caissons, Esquimalt Dock, 260 



caissons, 248 



, Cerro, Monte Video, 262 



, Garvel Dock, 264 



Slips, 3 



Slipways, 312 



, broadside, 329 



, foundations for, 315 



, hydraulic hauling-gear for, 324 



, mode of working, 320 



of ordinary construction, 319 



. , resistance on sliding-ways, 329 



, stress in hauling on, 328 



f to take more than one vessel, 321 



, wire-rope haulage for, 327 



Sluice-valves in dams, 37 



Somerset Dock, Malta, 196 



F omerset Dock, Malta, stopping flwun % 



99 

 Southampton Dock, basin walls, 123 



tidal dock, 24, 35 



Spezzia quay walls, 155 

 Spikes, hoi-ling power of, 384 

 Square quoins, 217 

 Stationary dredgers, 310 

 Staunchness of gates, 224 

 Stay gates, 231 

 Stock ramming, 101 

 Stopping joints, 102 



leaks, 97 



leaks through clay pu-Mlo, .T) 



Strains on floating docks, 293 



on gates, 412 



Subsidence of walls, etc., Ill 

 Suction-dredgers, 339 

 Sulphate of copper, 349 

 Support of dock gates, 230 



Temporary pumping, 338 



Teredo navalis, 344 



Testing stability of ground, 403 



Thickness of clay puddle, 38 



Through-bolts, 38 



Tidal docks, 10 



dock, Southampton, 24 



Tilbury Docks, 16 

 Timber dams, 37 



1 risk of floating, 40 



dams on the Thames, 45 



docks, 186 



- gates, 219 



shield at Rio, 41 



wharfing, 158 



Time actually employed in dredging, 342 

 Tongued and grooved piles, 37 

 Toulon Graving Dock, 183 

 Training-walls at Rouen, 140 



Valves, sluice, in dams, 37 



Variation of quantities in dredging, 311 



Velocity, bottom, 269 



Veneering, 112 



Vertical centrifugal-pumps, 333 



Vibration caused by puuips, 39 



