New dry dock at Rio de Janeiro, 1868. The opening of the Commercial Dock in Mocangué, one of the islands in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, '...was honoured with the presence of the Emperor and Empress of dry dock is the only one on the whole South Atlantic coast available for merchant and foreign is the work of an English firm, Messrs. Hett, Wilson, and Co., the proprietors of Mocangué, which is a coaling station for local and Transatlantic steamers. The dock is excavated out of the solid granite engine is of 30-horse power and drives one of App
New dry dock at Rio de Janeiro, 1868. The opening of the Commercial Dock in Mocangué, one of the islands in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro, '...was honoured with the presence of the Emperor and Empress of dry dock is the only one on the whole South Atlantic coast available for merchant and foreign is the work of an English firm, Messrs. Hett, Wilson, and Co., the proprietors of Mocangué, which is a coaling station for local and Transatlantic steamers. The dock is excavated out of the solid granite engine is of 30-horse power and drives one of Appold's centrifugal pumps. It was made by Messrs. Yarrow and dock was constructed from the plans and under the superintendence of Mr. R. G. Cunningham, the ceremony of blessing the giving it the name of "Commercial Dock",...the water was let in when the Brazilian transport-steamer Jaquaribe floated in and was of the Ministers made a speech, in which he commented on the great importance of this undertaking, and instanced the case of the vessel then in dock, the Jaquaribe, which had remained without cleaning for eighteen months, till it had become almost unfit for sea, there being no dry dock for its accommodation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.
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