Model of a Dry Dock, Model of the dry dock of Willemsoord, on a ground board. The floorboard shows the composition of the wooden raft on which the dock was built. The dock has an elongated oval shape and a metal ship door with a keel. At the entrance, four pipes run from the bottom up through one of the sides, this drained the water with pumps when the dock was pumped empty. The ship door has double skin up to two thirds of the height, the inner caisson is divided into four compartments. Each compartment has a mechanical pump, a drain valve and two sliders that connect it to the neighboring co

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
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