Port Series, Issue 8U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - Harbors |
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AREA FOR CARGO available to vessels barges bridge bulkhead bunkering CAPACITY PER SQUARE carloads carriers charges Chester Christina River Claymont concrete connect with Pennsylvania Corps of Engineers Delaware City Delaware River Delaware River ports DEPTH ALONGSIDE Dock Code DOCKS Engineers Port Code Export Face feet feet wide approach Fieldsboro gantry crane hand extinguishers HEIGHT INSIDE FEET HEIGHT OF DECK Isbrandtsen Company LIGHTED OR UNLIGHTED LOAD CAPACITY LOCATION ON WATER Lower side feet Mantua Marcus Hook MECHANICAL HANDLING FACILITIES Mooring NUMBER AND TYPE NUMBER ON MAP OPERATED Paulsboro Pennsylvania Railroad petroleum Philadelphia Pier points RAILWAY CONNECTIONS Reading Company REFERENCE NUMBER Right bank Shipping solid fill SQUARE FOOT LBS Street Sun Shipbuilding surface track Tariff Timber pile Tinicum Township tons TOTAL FLOOR AREA TRANSIT SHEDS Trenton TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION U.S. Steel Upper side feet USABLE BERTHING SPACE Warehouse watchmen WATER FRONT wharf WHARVES WIDTH OF APRON Wilmington yards
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Page 13 - Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving any vessel or the owner or person in charge of any vessel from the penalties of law for obstructing navigation or for obstructing or interfering with range...
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 20 - The owners of each bridge shall provide and keep in good legible condition two board gages painted white with black figures not less than 6 inches high, to indicate the head-room, clearance under the closed span at all stages of the tide. These...
Page 13 - Any vessel carrying explosives and desiring to proceed to the anchorage provided therefor must first obtain a written permit from the Captain of the Port; and no vessel shall occupy a berth in such anchorage except by authority of such permit, which may be revoked at any time. All other vessels, especially tugs and stevedores...
Page 174 - States and to the national defense; (b) The type, size, speed, and other requirements of the vessels, including express-liner or super-liner vessels, which should be employed in such services or on such routes or lines, and the frequency and regularity of the sailings of such vessels, with a view to furnishing adequate, regular, certain, and permanent service; (c) The relative cost of construction of comparable vessels in the United States...
Page 174 - New designs, new methods of construction, and new types of equipment for vessels; the possibilities of promoting the carrying of American foreign trade in American vessels; and intercoastal and inland water transportation, including their relation to transportation by land and air.
Page 12 - Every vessel whose crew may be reduced to such number that it will not have sufficient men on board to weigh anchor at any time shall, before...
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...
Page 12 - Government chart, or be moored, anchored, or tied up to any pier, wharf, or other vessel in such manner as to obstruct or endanger the passage of any vessel.
Page 45 - States; shall administer laws and promulgate and enforce regulations for the promotion of safety of life and property on the high seas and on waters subject to the Jurisdiction of the United States...