Excerpt from Brief Sketch of the Plan and Advantages of a Sectional Floating Dry Dock: Combined With a Permanent Stone Basin and Platform, and Connected With Level Bedways, Sliding Ways, and Housed Slips, for Reparing, Launching, and Laying Up in Ordinary the Ships of the United States Navy Again The advantages which Slips are supposed to possess over Dry M, are many and important. They can be constructed at one twentieth part of the expense; they occupy less space; they can be constructed on a steep or a shelving shore, and ships can be hauled upon them either in spring or neap tides; whereas, a Dry Dock can only be made in particular situations, and when made, ships can only be docked and undocked, in certain state. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.