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Length on Breadth at Entrance Keel-Blocks.
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(No.
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7.30 am to 10:00 am....Every 10 minutes. 10.00m. to 11.00 am....Every 15 minutes. 11.30a.m. to 12.45 pm....Every 15 minuten. 1245 pm to 1.15 p.m....Every 10 minutes. 135 p.m to 1.45pm.... Every 15 minutes. 1.45 pan. 1 to 2.15 pm...Every 10 minutes.
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on Bottom,
7 ft.
53 ft.
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1 Patent Slip capable of lifting vessels up in 1,000 tons.
Depth of Water
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26 th 24 ft,
34 #t.
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AT KOBE :-Telegraphis Address: "WADADOCK" KOBE.
Lifting Power
Max. Length of Ship taken in
Floating Docks. No. 1. 7,000. Tome. 460 Fest.
No. 2.
12,000 Tons.
520 Fest,
Breadth
56
Draft
22
66 26
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The Salvage Steamer "ARIHA-MARU,” pumping capacity per hour 2,000 tons,
The Floating Sheerlegs, capable of lifting 40 ton weight, -
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[1591 Hongkong, 12th April, 1911.
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