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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14TH 1925
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GREATEST FLOATING DOCK. DESCRIBING SOUTHAMPTON'S
A flying gangway, or swing bridge, capable of being opened or closed, affords, access from one wall of the dock to the other. The dock is further pro HUGE STRUCTURE.
vided with four smaller pumping instal- Whilst it is true that the great ship or for fire extinction, which are able to lations for use in washing down ships building and engineering firms have discharge water to a height of 200ft. turned out from time to time many ob fresh water service, and s compressed air
above the pontoon deck. In addition, Jests of beauty and romance, that have service for the various small tools used immediately called forth the praises and electric cranes, one on each wall of the in ship-repairing, are also installed. Two congratulations of the whole scientific dock, cun travel from end to end of the community, it is questionabis whether structure, and are capable of lifting any greater achievement stands to their weights on to or off the dock up to five credit than the construction of the huge
The Auge structure is connected with ec,000 ton Boating dry dock now in uso the shore by means of four mooring booms of latticed steel and 110ft. long, Southampton.
the Designed for
These are attached at the shore and Southern Railway Company by Messra to four reinforced concrete dolphins, the Clark and Standheld, the floating, dock ox-boons being hingeil at both ends as that the dock's movement up and down is not perts, and constructed by Sir W. G. Am-impeded. Fach of these booms is esp strong. Whitworth & Co., Ltd, at High able of taking a push of 25 tons, for Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the dock is the total wind pressure on the structure the largest of its kind in the world; it is 1,000 tons. | overall length being 960 feet; clear width One of the dolphin is connected to of entrance, 134 feet; and the drangh the shore by a bridge, and two gang- of water over kerf blocks, 34 feet. Iways lead from this onto the deck, accommodates vessels of 10,000 tons dis-necess thus being afforded to and from placement, and is able to deal with as the shore at all times. The dock itself liner at present affont, or for that matter is moored in a longitudinal position by yet contemplated.
at
To give some idea of the magnitades of anchors and chains in the usual way, and is kented in a special berth of this vast structure, it may be men wear one of the existing quays. The tioned that it covers an area of about dredging of this berth entailed the re- 3 acres, and that there are 10,000 tons moval of about $80,000 cubic yards of of steel in its hull. The weight of the soil, and the work was the deepest ever rivets alone amounts to about 800 tons, carried out. and they number, roughly 4,000,000.
The height of the lock from the bottom pontoon to the top deck of the side, walls is 70ft, and the bed" in which it works had been dredged to a depth of eeft. LW.O.S.T. or 7ft. W.O.S.T.
The dock is a shaped structure, which can be sunk to any desired depth by admitting water into tanks in the pentoon and side walls. When sub- merged in this manner, the vessel to be docked is hauled on to the pontoon, or herirontal portion of the "U," and upon the water being pumped out the dock rises, carrying the vessel with it, until the pontoon deck is completely out of the water. The dock belongs to the self. docking type that is to say, it is made seven sections which normally are connected together, but which are cap able of being disconnected and docked for cleaning or repair on the remaining
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The Home Secretary has written to the Right Hon. John Rawlinson, the tem
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rary chairman of the committee ap pointed in connection with the recent enquiry into the wrongful arrest of ia the mistaken Major Sheppard identity ense, stating that Parliament will be asked to insert a clause in the Criminal Justice Bill empowering the i police to allow an accused person bail, and entitling everyone pat up for iden- tification to have a solicitor or friend. present.
An accused person must be informed of his right to object to the taking of finger prints, and notices of such pro- visions must be sexhibited at all police stations.
He adds that the Commissioner of Palics is considering taking discip linary action in connection with the Sheppard case,
When lifting a vessel the size of the Majestic, which has a tonnage of 56,551 tons gross, the dock requires to be sunk until there is a depth of wit, of water over the keel "blocks; and then about 80,000 tons of water has to be expelled from the bottom pontoon and side walla in order to lift the ship. To effect this, there are 14 centrifugal pumps, 10 of 18in. diameter, and four of sin. dia meter and the combined installation lifts. the ship in four hours; each pump de livering a stream of water 18in. or 15in. diameter, according to their capacity, 36* a velocity of 10ft. in every second."
Each of these pumps is driven by an electric motor, of 95 D.H.P: in the case of the thin. pumps, and 130 B.H.P. in that of the 18in, pumps, and each motor is situated in a separate house on the top deck of the walls, and the current is obtained from the railway company's sapply on shore. All the motors ard controlled from one station, known a the valve house, and in this there is installed in the form of a model of the dock itself-tables on which are mounted the switches which control the motors und those which actuate the electrical contacta for opening or closing the valves. The apparatus for each compart Iment it fitted in its corresponding posi tion on this table. There is thus con- centrated in the valve house all, the necessary gear for the dock-master, to completely control the dock's machinery. A system of telephonce enables him to communicate with every mator house na the dock, and he thus has under his control the entire operations of sinking or raising the dock, and can observe from the instruments under his eye exactly what is occurring and make all necessary adjustments with case,
This ship is berthed on a central row. of keel blocks, and two side rows of ad- justable bilge blocks. There are four powerful electrically-operated side shares on each side of the dock, and they are so geared that the opposite shores always move out equal distances. It is evident, therefore, that when the shores on either side bear against the vessel, she will be exactly centred on the keel blocks,
Yet the operation of centreing is a most important one, and, as accuracy to the smallest fraction of an inch is desirable, a new centreing indicator is being used for the first time. This ap paratus is particularly ingenious, and is worked by pneumatic-electric power. It comprises six tiny "arma" fitted quite closely together in parallel linca; and before the dock is sunk it is placed between the koel blocks and fixed s as to protrude one inch above them. As a matter of fact, there are two sets of this apparatas in use throughout the length of the blocks, and each is connect ed by a tube with a small box placed at a convenient spot on the platform on the top of the side walls. In this box are six electric light globes arranged in the order-two white, one green, one. red, and two white.
When the liner is docked and is setting down the keel establishes
in the
one or more of the "arma" and with case of it, being to port of the centre of the blocks, it will show in the box on the platform a red and white light Similarly, when to starboard a green and white light will be shown, but when the kçel is resting on the centre, and thus in a correct, position only the red and green Amps are lighted, except in "some cases when the keel of the vessel is very flat, in which case red, green, and white may possibly all be lighted.
It is thus quite, casy to toll, apart from all other methods, whether the vessel is occupying her proper place on the blocks, and if such is not the caso, quickly to remedy it with the aid of
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GIANT BEAR TAKEN ALIVE. THRILLING FIGHT ON POLAR ICE
A remarkable story of the capture of a full-sized Polar bear in the ratic is told by Mr H S. Snow, who has just returned to America from the Far North, moving pictures of men and animals where he has spent six years making
particularly animals.
which they had hoped to subsist on thei arduous journey across the Arctic were
this
party, and took all their effoot and their jaw bones back to civilisation for identification purposes In San Francisco
found. Mr. Snow buried the remains of
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ft, and the eircumference of his body is over 3 yards.
met the engineer of the party, who recognized many of the impliments of na
is most upt to boast was the capture of ill-fated group of pioneers.
The achievement of which Mr. Snow
real mu-sized " from civilization; then he suddenly ap
polar bear. He For three years Mr. Suos disappeared")
scoffs at persons who have caught cubs and brought them Jack. His bear weighs peated at. Nome, Alaska, where he spent the winter of 1923 working over his tall. The diameter, of his legs i alnost.
over 200 ha, and stands about ejít. tures. He was disappointed with them. and so he decided to try again, and this time to go farther north. He left his wife behind at None, and with his son,
GOOD CAMERA WORK. Sidney, and Captain Lane of the ss |
When the bear was first sighted, he was Herman, be set sail for the 'territory into
separated a bit from his herd, and the which few men have ever penetrated and task of Mr. Snow and his men was to get still fewer returned.
him farther from the hard and then, to When Mr. Suowan Cafitain Lane rope hinu A small boht was lowered and landed an Herald Island they were as the crew set after the hear, chasing him tounded to behold as oil atave. Such a positive trace of civilization could mean took the matter into his own hands. He for two or three miles. Then the bear only one thing. White men had livedl andel
It was a. periloos probably perished upon the island. Mr. charged the hont,
noment. Snow's" party dug through the snow
Sidney Snow had the camera and kept around the oil stove, ami hit upon a tent, under which were the bodies of thrinding until the very last moment. when the Bear was upon them. Than men.
they slipped a rope around the bear's FACE DOWNWARDS.
neok and atárted fall speed in the op Que of the bodies was lying face downposite direction. The bear struggled and ward with arms outstretched. Mr. Snow slipped the rope from his neck but it believes that a sudden wind unlashed part quickly encircled him amidships. He. of the tent, and that the man whose lady was game, but auother charge mérely led was face downward had reached outward to another rope being east around him. to grab the tent and replace the canvas. With the two ropes on him it was an But before he reached it, all three of the easy matter to pass them to the deck of party were buried by a sudden drift. the Herun and hoist him on the deck. All their equipment was discovered in and into the hold of the ship. He is now the snow. Over 30 enns of meat upere in the Oakland Zoo, California.
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