that are damaged in their Bottoms. 105 
or infide plank of the (hip was very fecurely caulked up 
to the lower deck, and the whole formed a compleat Ihip 
with a flat bottom within fide to fwim the outfide leaky 
one ; and that bottom being deprefled fix feet below the 
external water, refilled the Ihip’s weight above it, equal 
to five hundred and eighty-one tons, and fafely conveyed 
hereto the dry dock at Deptford. 
Since I wrote the above account, I have been defired to 
ufe the fame method on a Swedilh Ihip, branded near 
Margate on the fame day as the York Eaft India-man, 
and fwim her to London. As this Ihip is about two hun- 
dred and fifty tons, and the execution of the bufinefs 
fomething different from what was pradlifed with regard 
to the large Ihip, I hope it will not be thought improper 
to defcribe it. 
As this Ihip’s bottom was fo much injured, having loft 
eight feet of her ftern-poft and all her keel, feverai floor- 
timbers being broke, and force of the planks off her bot- 
tom, (fo as to leave a hole big enough for a man to come 
through) feverai lower deck beams being likewife broke, 
and all the pillars in the hold broken and walked away ; 
I thought it neceffary to conned, in fome degree, the Ihat- 
tered bottom with the Ihip’s decks, not only to l'upport 
the temporary deck by which ftie was to fwim up, but to 
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