Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ch has a capacity for fitting out eightvessels at one time. Near the fitting-out berth are a paint shop,ship riggers shop, pipe shop and storehouses. A space at the endof the wet basin is reserved for the storage of pipe and is handled at the fitting-out berth by locomotive cranes,and for heavy weights such as boilers and engines a stationary three-leg jib crane of 100 tons capacity has been erected. This crane wasdesigned and built by the Federal Shipbuilding Company in conjunc-tion with the American Bridge Company. Located at the wet basin i
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . ch has a capacity for fitting out eightvessels at one time. Near the fitting-out berth are a paint shop,ship riggers shop, pipe shop and storehouses. A space at the endof the wet basin is reserved for the storage of pipe and is handled at the fitting-out berth by locomotive cranes,and for heavy weights such as boilers and engines a stationary three-leg jib crane of 100 tons capacity has been erected. This crane wasdesigned and built by the Federal Shipbuilding Company in conjunc-tion with the American Bridge Company. Located at the wet basin is a floating drydoek constructed withwooden pontoons and continuous steel wing walls. This dock willhandle vessels up to 500 feet in length and is controlled electricallyfrom an operating house at the head of the wet basin. The pon-toons were built and launched from yards ways, while the steel wingwalls were fabricated in the shops and the complete dock was erectedby the Companys forces during the early part of 1921. — 202 —. T7 f# In addition to the plate shop, the yard is equipped with a ma-chine shop, forge shop, boiler shop, foundry and carpenter department is housed in a separate building, and all of thebuildings are of steel, glass and tile construction. Power is furnished from the Public Service station in the formof electricity at 13,000 volts, which is stepped down to 2,200 voltsfor operating the air compressors, 400 volts alternating currentand 250 volts direct for general machine use, and 110 volts singlephase for lighting purposes. In the power house are five air com-pressors supplying a total of 22,000 cubic feet of free air perminute. Two of the compressors are Ingersoll-Rand machines, onewith a capacity of 5,400 cubic feet and the other of 2,700 cubic feetof free air per minute. The other three compressors are of theLaidlaw-Dunn-Gordon cross compound type, each with a capacityof about 4,400 cubic feet of free air per minute. In the power housethere
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