Illustrated description of caisson, numbers of which could be used to replace damaged dock gates in ports subject to large tidal range; scheme was to produce standard steel tanks capable of being floated and towed into position; caisson, when flooded, rests on prepared bed on lock bottom, but has sufficient clearance at sides, by reason of flaps, to enable it to be floated out of entrance at high water to allow shipping to enter dock.


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    Title :

    "Shark" sectional dock caissons


    Additional title:

    Engineer


    Published in:

    Engineer ; 180 , n 4693


    Publication date :

    1945


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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