i o 6 Mr. bakxard’s Method of removing Ships 
prevent the bottom being crufhed by the weight of the 
fhip when fhe was put upon blocks in the dry dock : to 
efFedt which, after I had put acrofs twelve beams of fir, 
fix inches by twelve, edgeways, one under every lower 
deck beam of the fhip, and well fattened them to the 
fhip’s fide, I placed two upright pieces to each beam of 
fix inches by twelve, fecurely bolted to the fides of the 
keelfon, and fcored fix inches under the fhip’s lower 
deck beams, and three inches about the beams of the 
temporary deck, and well fattened to each : then the deck 
was laid with long two-inch Dantzic deals, and well 
nailed and caulked; the fhip’s infide plank was well 
caulked up to the lower deck. A piece of fir, of twelve 
inches broad and two inches thick on the upper, and four 
inches on the lower edge, was well nailed to the fhip’s fide 
all fore and aft, and well caulked on both edges to prevent 
the fide of the deck from leaking, or being forced up by the 
preflure of the water againft the deck, a two-inch deal or 
crofs piece was laid over every beam from the fhip’s fide 
to the uprights at the middle line; then, at equal diftance 
from the fide and middle line, pieces of fix inches fquare, 
as long as could be got down, were put all fore and aft on 
both fides, fcored two inches over every crofs piece, and 
well bolted through the crofs piece and deck, and into the 
fir beams. From this fore and aft piece or ribband to the 
fhip’s 
