. The railroad and engineering journal . The method was certainly ingenious. It has the advantagesof dispensing with the use of arches, and of quickness in ex-ecution. Modern mason; nn<iy lake some hints from their oldPersian predecessors, dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. The craft is 48 ft. 6 length over all by 8 ft. 9 in. beam, with an average diaft of2 ft. 3 in., her full complement being 40 fully equipped speed averages eight knots per hour, and for cases ofemergency she is fitted with two masts, two balance lug sails,and a stay sail, thus enabling her to be sailed
. The railroad and engineering journal . The method was certainly ingenious. It has the advantagesof dispensing with the use of arches, and of quickness in ex-ecution. Modern mason; nn<iy lake some hints from their oldPersian predecessors, dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. The craft is 48 ft. 6 length over all by 8 ft. 9 in. beam, with an average diaft of2 ft. 3 in., her full complement being 40 fully equipped speed averages eight knots per hour, and for cases ofemergency she is fitted with two masts, two balance lug sails,and a stay sail, thus enabling her to be sailed or propelled elec-trically, and to do the same as a steam pinnace of her Woodhouse & Rawson have a special accumulatorwhich has been under test for several months, and which hasgiven remarkable results ; and the employment of this accumu-lator for launches is expected to lead to considerable extensioain the immediate future. It is claimed that the use of electricpinnaces presents considerable advantages over the existi
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