. Marine Engineer . gn is similar toother two 50-ton cranes installed in the machine andboiler shops. The dock is flanked on each side withlean-to working sheds, well equipped with the lightertools always required in finally adjusting and fittingmachinery on board ship. The girders carrying the50-ton crane project at the inner end of the dock forabout 50 ft. beyond the roofing, and 20 ft. beyond thelast of the line of supporting columns. This enablesthe overhead traveller to lift materials, and items ofships machinery, from the trucks on a circular lineof ground railway of the usual standard g
. Marine Engineer . gn is similar toother two 50-ton cranes installed in the machine andboiler shops. The dock is flanked on each side withlean-to working sheds, well equipped with the lightertools always required in finally adjusting and fittingmachinery on board ship. The girders carrying the50-ton crane project at the inner end of the dock forabout 50 ft. beyond the roofing, and 20 ft. beyond thelast of the line of supporting columns. This enablesthe overhead traveller to lift materials, and items ofships machinery, from the trucks on a circular lineof ground railway of the usual standard gauge, whichis in touch with the engineering and boiler shops, and,of course, with outside systems of railway. The general offices, with, on each side, the two mainblocks of buildings—boiler shops on the east andengineering shops on the west—together form almostthe entire northern boundary of the works, which isparallel to South Street and to the Lanarkshire andDumbartonshire Railway, access from which is, there-. Yarrow & Works- -View from River Clyde showing Building Berths and Boiler Shops frontage. The depth of water opposite the berths isidy 20 ft. to 24 ft. at low tide, which, in itself,affords ample depth for safely floating vessels of suchcomparatively small displacement as are to be built,but by increased depth, through further dredging bythe Clyde Trustees, the firm will be able safely tolaunch their largest vessels with the minimum ofchei King arrangements. To tli> west of the building berths, and like themset at an angle of 50 deg. relatively to the course ofthe liver, is the covered-in fitting-out basin, theconstruction and appearance of which will be gatheredfrom one 01 the views we give of the rivei dock i> about 320 ft. in length, by 86 ft. clearwidth at the 1 1 pe, and has a central depth at low tideof 19 ft. at the rivei end and of 16 ft. at the covering-in structure, which 1 entirely roofedwith glass, is about 61$ ft. clear he
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