io4 AA. Barnard’s Method of removing Ships 
bolted together when in their places. Over thefe were 
laid long Dantzic deals of two inches and an half thick, 
well nailed and caulked. Againft the fhip’s fide, all fore 
and aft, was well nailed a piece of fir, twelve inches 
broad and fix inches thick on the lower, and three inches 
on the upper edge, to prevent the deck from rifing at the 
fide. Over the deck, at every beam, was laid a crofs 
piece of fir timber, fix inches deep and twelve inches 
broad, reaching from the pillar of the hold to the fhip’s 
fide, on which the fhores were to be placed to refill the 
preffure of the water beneath. On each of thefe, and 
againft the lower deck beam, at equal dillance from the 
fide and middle of the fhip, was placed an upright fhore, 
fix inches by twelve inches, the lower end let two inches 
into the crofs piece. From the foot of this fhore to the 
fhip’s fide, under the end of every lower deck beam, was 
placed a diagonal fhore, fix inches by twelve, to eafe the 
fhip’s deck of part of the ftrain by throwing it on the 
fide. An upright fhore, of three inches by twelve, 
was placed from the end of every crofs piece to the 
lower deck beams at the fide; and one of three inches 
by twelve on the midfhip end of every crofs piece to 
the lower deck beam, and nailed to the pillars in the 
hold. Two firm tight bulkheads or partitions were made 
as near the extremes of the fliip as poflible. The cieling 
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