. An Account of a Method for the Safe Removal of Ships That Have Been Driven on Shore, and Damaged in Their Bottoms, to Places (However Distant) for Repairing Them. By Mr. William Barnard, Shipbuilder, Grove Street, Deptford; Communicated by Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal . ulked it, to flop half the wa-ter on the weather or upper fide, when the fliip wouldincline either way, which not only made her flifFer un-der fail, but facilitated the pumping out the waters madeby leaks in the deck. This deck was fixty-three feet long and twenty-threefeet broad, and was laid at five
. An Account of a Method for the Safe Removal of Ships That Have Been Driven on Shore, and Damaged in Their Bottoms, to Places (However Distant) for Repairing Them. By Mr. William Barnard, Shipbuilder, Grove Street, Deptford; Communicated by Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal . ulked it, to flop half the wa-ter on the weather or upper fide, when the fliip wouldincline either way, which not only made her flifFer un-der fail, but facilitated the pumping out the waters madeby leaks in the deck. This deck was fixty-three feet long and twenty-threefeet broad, and was laid at five feet five inches above thebottom of the keel, or four feet above the top of the floortimbers, and fwam the fliip at twelve feet five incheswater, refifling two hundred and fixteen tons,, and con-taining under it one hundred and twenty-four tons of wa-ter, which preffing againfl the under fide of the temporary Vol, LXX. Pa deck IO 8 Mr. BARNARDS MftitjUi &t. deck aiied as baliaft, and brought her fafely into tihe#fdock at Deptford, from the moft dangerous fituation jjoft-fible, being partly within and pairdy withom MarjflpnePier, where Ihe had been left by fom$ Ramigate >in^who had undertaken to remove htr from the ^Saoiewhere fhe was ftranded to a fafer one within Maii^teHarbour.^. y ?wy BuVaE s, E. k/)//ti/y /// Ao/f/ff/ou/ff/ffcA f rrTj//m/y F, ^W^.j//mr.} a/ //• /^ ///.A/Y^ru/rr/M/ 6 /// / f///rA//Arffr/arf 7 r/ rr// /r)//r7 ^:^jfn//f//r>/// /Ar////AfT /// fAr ////r/r/A /r> /ArjuA. /(// 7f /Y////A/r //ai/*j r//rf/////r/tAff{>fu/Af f/tr rAYr/.;^ ^/^//Arrr /Ar^////^/?^ff///{/// /fj,Uf////o//fA/r . yJrrA , C,*»/^/>/v*/ /^ ///1^ AfA €)/f r/T%//rw/jA/?rrr//uJ A/ ///A? /Ar/// if//. H. !:yhru/fwrfA fjAofr^t^fVut tA/Awfa/r/^rf/^i///rfAA//^^Aw/r ^/ /Aftf/At/Afj r/uAf. ////rA p f frtyr/ffAf^.^o/Af fAecAc t^Jca///^*. I. c/ oA /2 A/ttA// S f/A:Ar?/u /rr^At f /irA oA tAif enA/w^f Aa /Af Jmrry rArA ^ ^imrn^^ /oAr^/ ^Aw AAr^^y^i/rr/Arj/// /rj///^ . K. e/A
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