Port Series, Issue 37U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954 - Harbors |
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... depths vary from 24 to 104 fathoms and its min- imum width is 2 1/2 miles . Puget Sound proper extends from Admiralty Inlet in a general southerly direction for a distance of about 26 nautical miles to Seattle with widths varying from 2 ...
... depths vary from 24 to 104 fathoms and its min- imum width is 2 1/2 miles . Puget Sound proper extends from Admiralty Inlet in a general southerly direction for a distance of about 26 nautical miles to Seattle with widths varying from 2 ...
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... depth ranging from 18 to 99 fathoms . HARBOR AND CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS BY THE UNITED STATES The original project ... depths for Everett Harbor are as follows : 7.0 feet in the chan- nel from the lower harbor to the settling basin , 6.6 ...
... depth ranging from 18 to 99 fathoms . HARBOR AND CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS BY THE UNITED STATES The original project ... depths for Everett Harbor are as follows : 7.0 feet in the chan- nel from the lower harbor to the settling basin , 6.6 ...
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... depths . Cargo is generally handled entirely by ship's gear , although the pier operators maintain fork - lift trucks ... depth of 12 feet , 700 feet in width , and 1,200 feet in length , which serves as a convenient turning basin for ...
... depths . Cargo is generally handled entirely by ship's gear , although the pier operators maintain fork - lift trucks ... depth of 12 feet , 700 feet in width , and 1,200 feet in length , which serves as a convenient turning basin for ...
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... DEPTH ALONGSIDE AT M.L.L.W 15 15 15 35-30 USABLE BERTHING SPACE 100 w / dolphins- WIDTH OF APRON HEIGHT OF DECK ABOVE M.L.L.W. LOAD CAPACITY PER SQUARE FOOT ( LBS . ) 400 LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED TRANSIT SHEDS Open wharf . 20 Lighted , None ...
... DEPTH ALONGSIDE AT M.L.L.W 15 15 15 35-30 USABLE BERTHING SPACE 100 w / dolphins- WIDTH OF APRON HEIGHT OF DECK ABOVE M.L.L.W. LOAD CAPACITY PER SQUARE FOOT ( LBS . ) 400 LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED TRANSIT SHEDS Open wharf . 20 Lighted , None ...
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... depths alongside of not more than 14 feet and less toward its shore end , nevertheless , cargo can be handled between moderate draft vessels and the 16,000 - square - foot transit shed . Highway trucks have access to the pier from the ...
... depths alongside of not more than 14 feet and less toward its shore end , nevertheless , cargo can be handled between moderate draft vessels and the 16,000 - square - foot transit shed . Highway trucks have access to the pier from the ...
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AREA FOR CARGO available to vessels barges Bellingham Bay boom British Columbia CAPACITY PER SQUARE CARGO SQ.FT charges commodities Company conveyor Corps of Engineers crane Creek Waterway DEPTH ALONGSIDE docks Engineers Port Code equipment Face feet feet wide fish floating Hand extinguishers Hewitt Avenue Hydrants LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED LOAD CAPACITY LOCATION ON WATER Log Dump Lumber marine railway Maritime Administration MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES Milwaukee Mooring North side feet Northern Pacific Railway Northern Railway NUMBER ON MAP Open pile operated Pacific Coast ports Paul and Pacific Port Angeles Port Gardner Bay Port of Bellingham Port of Everett Puget Sound rail RAILWAY CONNECTIONS rates Receipt REFERENCE NUMBER REGULARLY USING TERMINAL repair Seattle shipments short tons Snohomish River SQUARE FOOT LBS STEAMSHIP LINES REGULARLY surface track Tariff timber-decked tons trade trestle trucks TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION USABLE BERTHING SPACE Wash Washington waterfront Weyerhaeuser wharf wharves Whatcom Creek WIDTH OF APRON wood
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Page vii - ... 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 xiv - The commission for good cause shown may allow changes without requiring the thirty days' notice under such conditions as it may prescribe. No corporation or municipality shall charge, demand, collect or receive a greater or less or different compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered than the rates and charges applicable to such...
Page vii - ... 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...
Page xiv - ... receiving the prescribed signal: Provided, That the draw shall not be opened when a train is approaching so closely that it cannot safely be stopped before reaching the bridge, or when a passenger or mail train is approaching within sight or hearing of the drav/ tender.
Page xiv - ... are unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or in anywise in violation of any provision of law, the commission shall determine and prescribe the just and reasonable rates and charges...
Page 71 - LAOS, for the common good of shippers and carriers, by providing just and economical cooperation between the steamship lines operating in such trades...
Page xiv - ... Commission, or that any rule, regulation, practice, or contract affecting such rate, charge, or classification is unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential, the Commission shall determine the just and reasonable rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, practice, or contract to be thereafter observed and in force, and shall fix the same by order...
Page xiv - Two long distinct blasts of a whistle, horn or megaphone, or two loud and distinct strokes of a bell, to be repeated at regular intervals until acknowledged by the vessel.
Page xiv - And whenever the commission shall be of opinion, after a hearing, had upon its own motion or upon complaint...
Page xiv - When fog prevails by day or by night the draw tender, after repeating the call signal, shall toll a bell continuously during the approach and passage of the vessel.