Port Series, Issue 10U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - Harbors |
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... Coal bunkering and coal handling . Storage warehouses . 164 168 170 Bulk storage ... 183 Hoisting facilities 184 Grain elevators ... 189 Marine repair plants .. 191 Floating drydocks and graving docks . 195 Marine railways ... 198 ...
... Coal bunkering and coal handling . Storage warehouses . 164 168 170 Bulk storage ... 183 Hoisting facilities 184 Grain elevators ... 189 Marine repair plants .. 191 Floating drydocks and graving docks . 195 Marine railways ... 198 ...
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... Railroads , to a line between the outer end of Henderson's Wharf , Fells Point , and the Baltimore coal pier , Locust Point , where it is 4 THE PORT OF BALTIMORE , MD . Harbor and channel improvements by local interests.
... Railroads , to a line between the outer end of Henderson's Wharf , Fells Point , and the Baltimore coal pier , Locust Point , where it is 4 THE PORT OF BALTIMORE , MD . Harbor and channel improvements by local interests.
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United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. Baltimore coal pier , Locust Point , where it is joined by a 24 - foot extension chan- nel serving the municipal piers along Pratt Street . The city has also dredged a channel 27 ...
United States. Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. Baltimore coal pier , Locust Point , where it is joined by a 24 - foot extension chan- nel serving the municipal piers along Pratt Street . The city has also dredged a channel 27 ...
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... Coal Company , Keyser Building Baltimore Towage & Lighterage Company , Mercantile Trust Building Chesapeake Lighterage Company , Inc. , Mercantile Trust Building Curtis Bay Towing Company , Mercantile Trust Building Wyatt Estep , 1914 ...
... Coal Company , Keyser Building Baltimore Towage & Lighterage Company , Mercantile Trust Building Chesapeake Lighterage Company , Inc. , Mercantile Trust Building Curtis Bay Towing Company , Mercantile Trust Building Wyatt Estep , 1914 ...
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... coal Loading or discharging Discharging ballast and thereafter loading coal $ 250 up to 9 days 15 per day for next 10 days 10 per day thereafter $ 350 up to 9 days 15 per day for next 10 days 10 per day thereafter Supervising agency ...
... coal Loading or discharging Discharging ballast and thereafter loading coal $ 250 up to 9 days 15 per day for next 10 days 10 per day thereafter $ 350 up to 9 days 15 per day for next 10 days 10 per day thereafter Supervising agency ...
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AREA FOR CARGO available to vessels Avenue Baltimore and Ohio Baltimore Harbor barge bulkhead Canton Railroad CAPACITY PER SQUARE carfloat CARGO DOORS MECHANICAL CARGO SQ.FT carload Chio Coal Pier Curtis Bay DEPTH ALONGSIDE Dock Code DOORS MECHANICAL HANDLING east of foot East side ELECTRIC CURRENT Engineers Port Code feet wide FIRE PROTECTION fireboat freight gantry cranes HEIGHT INSIDE FEET HEIGHT OF DECK Key Highway LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED LOAD CAPACITY LOCATION ON WATER Locust Point MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES North side feet NUMBER AND TYPE NUMBER ON MAP Ohio Railroad OPERATED Patapsco River Pennsylvania Railroad Port Covington port of Baltimore RAILWAY CONNECTIONS rates REGULARLY USING TERMINAL solid fill South side Sparrows Point SQUARE FOOT LBS STEAMSHIP LINES REGULARLY surface tracks timber deck Timber pile tons TOTAL FLOOR AREA trucks TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION USABLE BERTHING SPACE Warehouse watchmen WATER FRONT West side feet Western Maryland Railway wharf WIDTH OF APRON
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Page 37 - ... any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the United States, or into any tributary of any navigable water from which the same shall float or be washed into such navigable water...
Page 37 - Army; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor or refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of the Army prior to beginning the same.
Page 30 - States covering all matters not specifically delegated by law to some other executive department...
Page viii - ... to investigate any other matter that may tend to promote and encourage the use by vessels of ports adequate to care for the freight which would naturally pass through such ports...
Page 219 - States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic water-borne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service on all routes essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times...
Page 219 - Commission is authorized and directed to investigate, determine, and keep current records of — (a) The ocean services, routes, and lines from ports in the United States, or in a Territory, district, or possession thereof, to foreign markets, which are, or may be, determined by the Commission to be essential for the promotion, development, expansion, and maintenance of the foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 33 - ... to investigate the subject of water terminals, including the necessary docks, warehouses, apparatus, equipment, and appliances in connection therewith, with a view...
Page 31 - ... promulgation and enforcement of rules for lights, signals, speed, steering, sailing, passing, anchorage, movement, and towlines of vessels...
Page 37 - States is prohibited; and it shall not be lawful to build or' commence the building cf any wharf, pier, dolphin, boom, weir, breakwater, bulkhead, jetty, or other structures in any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, navigable river, or other water of the United States...
Page viii - ... to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals ; to investigate the practicability and advantages of harbor, river, and port improvements in connection with foreign and...