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... side Upper side Face or end Shore wharf Shore wharf Steamship lines using terminal . None . Reference number on. Reference number on map . Name ... Location on water front . Owned by Operated by . Purpose for which used . Type of ...
... side Upper side Face or end Shore wharf Shore wharf Steamship lines using terminal . None . Reference number on. Reference number on map . Name ... Location on water front . Owned by Operated by . Purpose for which used . Type of ...
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... Upper Face or Approach Lower Upper side side end side side Face or end Approach 1 8 - inch pipe line on pier . 2 10 - inch pipe lines on pier . sels . Remarks . HOISTING FACILITIES The only equipment ashore capable of making heavy.
... Upper Face or Approach Lower Upper side side end side side Face or end Approach 1 8 - inch pipe line on pier . 2 10 - inch pipe lines on pier . sels . Remarks . HOISTING FACILITIES The only equipment ashore capable of making heavy.
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... side of Neches River , above Southern Pacific Lines bridge . Petroleum Iron Works of Texas . Pennsylvania Shipyards ... Upper side Face or end Bulkhead wharf Lower side Upper side Face or end Bulkhead wharf Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet ...
... side of Neches River , above Southern Pacific Lines bridge . Petroleum Iron Works of Texas . Pennsylvania Shipyards ... Upper side Face or end Bulkhead wharf Lower side Upper side Face or end Bulkhead wharf Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet ...
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... side Upper side Face or end Mooring piles Lower side Upper side Face or end Lower side Upper side Face or end Description : Dimensions . Allowable floor load per square foot . sels . Remarks .. 45 by 30 feet . 1,350 square feet . 1,000 ...
... side Upper side Face or end Mooring piles Lower side Upper side Face or end Lower side Upper side Face or end Description : Dimensions . Allowable floor load per square foot . sels . Remarks .. 45 by 30 feet . 1,350 square feet . 1,000 ...
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... Upper side Face or end side Ap- proach Lower Upper Face or end Ap- side side proach Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet 15 15 18 45 x 6 7 + 7 14 56 56 x 6 Joint service all lines over port commission tracks ; 2 surface tracks on ...
... Upper side Face or end side Ap- proach Lower Upper Face or end Ap- side side proach Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet Feet 15 15 18 45 x 6 7 + 7 14 56 56 x 6 Joint service all lines over port commission tracks ; 2 surface tracks on ...
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30 feet anchorage barge barrels Berthing space available bridge bulkhead bunkering Capacity per sq cargo carloads charges Chesapeake & Ohio City service coal Coal Pier coastwise commodities Depth of water Electric current Elizabeth River end Feet Feet end Lower side export Face or end facilities Feet Feet Feet feet long Fire protection foot freight Hampton Roads Hand trucks harbor Lambert Point Lighted or unlighted Location on water Lower side Upper Magnolia Petroleum Co Mechanical handling facili minal Neches River Newport Norfolk & Western number on map Open pile Operated Port Arthur pounds Railroad Railway connections rates Reference number Sabine sacks sheds on pier ship shipments short tons side Upper side square feet Steamship lines storage Street tariff terminal Timber bulkhead tons Towed traffic Transit sheds Type of construction Upper side Face Virginian Railway warehouses water front Water supply wharves Width of apron wood deck Wood pile
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Page 6 - Any vessel anchoring under circumstances of great emergency outside of the anchorage areas must be placed near the edge of the channel and in such position as not to interfere with the free navigation of the channel nor obstruct the approach to any Pier nor impede the movement of any boat, and shall move away immediately after the emergency ceases, or upon notification by the Captain of the Port.
Page xi - ... 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 26 - Vessels carrying explosives shall be at all times in charge of competent persons and must display by day a red flag of at least 16 square feet at the masthead, or at least 10 feet above the upper deck, if the vessel has no mast; at night a red light will be displayed in the same positions specified for the red flag.
Page 177 - The parties hereto associate themselves for the common good of shippers and carriers by providing just and economical cooperation between the steamship lines operating in the trade as well as stabilization of freight rates in the interest of shippers and carriers alike.
Page 28 - A broken box of dynamite that cannot be recoopered should be reinforced by stout wrapping paper and twine, placed in another strong box and surrounded by dry, fine sawdust, or dry and clean cotton waste, or elastic wads made from dry newspaper.
Page 7 - ... work, but only in quantities considered by him safe and necessary. The district engineer shall prescribe the conditions under which this explosive shall be stored and handled, and shall in each case furnish the captain of the port with a copy of the written permit to anchor explosives on the work and a copy of the rules and regulations for the storage and handling.
Page 7 - ... as to impede or obstruct vessel movements in any channel or obstruct or interfere with range lights, and of any vessel which, lying at the exterior end of a pier or alongside an open bulkhead, obstructs or endangers the passage of vessels to or from adjacent wharf property or impedes the movements of vessels entering or leaving adjacent slips.
Page 28 - Where an inclined chute is employed such chute shall be constructed of 1-inch planed boards, with side guards 4 inches high extending 3 inches above top face of bottom of chute and throughout its length, -fastened with brass screws. D-shaped...
Page 11 - When the draw of the bridge cannot be opened immediately or when the bridge is open and is to be closed immediately, the draw tender shall reply by swinging to and fro horizontally a number of times a lighted lantern at night and a flag by day.
Page 195 - ... of a pilot offered outside the bar, and shall enter the port without the aid of one, she shall be liable to the first pilot whose services she so declined for the payment of half pilotage; and any vessel which after being brought in by a pilot shall go out without employing one shall be liable to the payment of half pilotage to the pilot who brought her in, or if she has come in without the aid of a pilot, though offered outside, she shall in so going out be liable for the payment of half pilotage...