Summary comparison of the stone dock with the sectional floating dock, when used in combination with a basin and arrangements to place ships on shore
Subtitle: made in reference to the questions of the applicability of each to the purposes of the navy yards of the U.S., and of the preference which the relative advantages and disadvantages demand
By: by Horatio Allen, civil engineer.
Publisher: T. Barnard, printer
Published: 1846
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Dry docks -- United States; Floating harbors -- United States; Navy-yards and naval stations -- United States
Notes: With: Letter from the secretary of the Navy upon the subject of establishing navy yards at Great Barn island, Perth Amboy, and Jersey City, &c., December 12, 1836. [Washington] : Blair & Rives, printers, [1836]. Bound together subsequent to publication.