The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-29
MILLIONS FOR DRY DOCKS.
AN EXPENDITURE OF S~I1,0O0,OOO
RECON ENDED.
Ten Docks Deemed Necessary by tho Board
Appointed In August TO Report ON the NnrJ'a
Need-Three Floating Docks and Perhaps
Five-UrEency In FIye Cases Pointed Out.

Ten Docks Deemed Necessary by tho Board
Appointed In August to Report on the Nhvy'a
N~eed-Three Floating Docks and Perhaps
FlVe-UrEcncy In Five Gases Pointed out.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2s.- Acting Secretary
Roosevelt Of the Navy Department received to.
day the report OF the board of officers appointed
In August to ascertain how many new naval
dry docks we're needed and where they should
be located. The members OF the board are Com.
modoro +. NJ. Bunce, Commander F. K. Chad.
wick, Assistant Naval Constructor Dashioll,
and Civil Engineer Charles w. Parks.
Soon after tho board was appointed Con.
struCtor Dashiell was sent abroad to gather in.
formation about the feasibility and practicable.
ity of boating dry docks. and his report Endorsed
that type OF basin so highly that the board has
recommended that three floating docks be con-
structed, coupling tho recommendation with n
suggestion that Pensacola and Galveston offer
additional sites for docks OF that character. Az
cording to the report these additional dry docks
are necessary and their construction Is recon-
mcnded:
At tho Boston Navy Yard. ono concrete gray
ing dock, 700 feet long, 81. 3OO,0 900; at tho Now
York Navy Yard. one concrete craving dock.
500 feet long, 81 200. 900; at the Norfolk Navy
Yard. ono concrete craving dock, 500 feet
long. $l.lo0,O00, and frightening OF the
present stone dock to 450 feet to enable it to
take all cruisers except the Now York and tho
Brooklyn. $3.50 ,oO0; at Newport News, a steel
doublc.sided combined floating and craving
dock; at Algiers, La, opposite New Orleans, n
double-sided steel floating dock OF the combined
floating and craving sclt-docking type, $780,
700; at Mare Island, Cal, adouk similar to those
recommended for New York and Norfolk, IL
the channel is improved, 800 feet long. u, 1O0,.
900; At New London. Conn.,, the construction or
canal locks which may form n dry dock, for the
largest vessels II n fresh water basin Is estab-
lisaed. 81 200, 900; at Tortugas. Fla. n double
sided steel floating and craving dock, X6oO. 900;
at Serbt Buena Island, Cal, in San Francisco
Bay, a doublc-ended dock Of concrete. Ii a sur
vey of the character OF the geological forma-
ton OF The island gives satisfactory results; at
San Pedro. Cal, n concrete dock in connection
with the proposed hurhor improvements.
The board : vs. that Pensacola and Galveston
Will of. err additional sites tor floating dry docks
on the further dee cning OF their approaches, IL
the future naval interests in the Gulf OF Mexico
require an increase OF docking facilities. The
total sum recommended for the construction Of
these docks IL Sll.OII 900, of which 50. az ., 900
is for five docks urgently needed AT New York,
Boston. Norfolk, New Orleans, AMI Mare Island.
1t is recommended that the dock nj the New
York Navy Yard shall be OF the %conrrctr gray
ing type, 300 :cet long, on tar blocks. 90 feet
wide on the side. with a depth of 80 feet over
the side.
The United States have a total OF eleven
naval dry docks, only one of which, that at
Puget sound; Wash. can take, ~ present, any
docks proposed by the board, we would have
for naval purposes, on our entire const line, but
one more dock than has Great Britain in one Of
its navy yards, Portsmouth"