 | G.P. Putnam & Co - 1852 - 728 pages
...a sufficient depth of water. It consists of two large boxes, or half ships, built in such u niuimcr that they could be applied on each side of the hull...the windlasses on the deck of the other part. .When about to 1* used, as much water as necessary was suffered to run into them; all the ropes were then... | |
 | Thomas Antisell - Industrial arts - 1852 - 728 pages
...harbors, where there is not a sufficient depth of water. It consists of two large boxes, or half ships, built in such a manner that they could be applied...from which ropes proceeded on one side, and being carriea under the keel of the vessel, were attached to the windlasses on the deck of the other part.... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 978 pages
...sedimentary rocks of much greater geological age than either Silurian or Cambrian has modified t ho views of geologists as to the importance of these...the windlasses on the deck of the other part. When about to be used, as much water as necessary was suffered to run into them; all the ropes were then... | |
 | Edward H. Knight - 1876 - 1046 pages
...of Bakker consisted of two imalf-ships built in such a manner that they could be applied below water on each side- of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each were a number of windlasses from which ropes proceeded through openings in the one, and, being carried... | |
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The camel consists of two half ships, built in such a manner that they can be applied, below water, on each side of the hull of a large vessel. On the deck of each part of the camel... 
