426 



INDEX. 



W 



Walls at Buckey Dock, 116 

 Wallsend floating dock, 295 

 Water area, cost per acre, 359 



, fresh, for scouring, 270 



in foundations, 79 



jet in pile-driving, 397 



, scouring power of, 267 

 , volume of, discharged, 209 

 Watertight joint in caisson dams, 43 

 Wave action, 411 



Weight of Creosote injected, 354, 355 

 of water in wood, 353 



West India Docks, 244 

 Wet docks, 2 

 Wharfage, 7 

 Wharf moorings, 405 

 Wharf- wall at Glasgow, 129 



, New York, 124 



walls, cost of, 3G1 

 Whitehavcn dock-gates, 237 

 Width of basins, 6 

 Winds, prevailing, G 

 Wire-rope fastenings, 384 



haulage for slipways, 327 



Wivenhoe Dock, 177 

 Wrought-iron in sea-water, 377 



HUNTED BY WILLIAM CI.OWKS AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BE(-CLE. 



