File:A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation (1880) (14778573621).jpg

Identifier: dictionaryprac00mccu (find matches)
Title: A dictionary, practical, theoretical and historical of commerce and commercial navigation
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay), 1789-1864
Subjects: McCullock, John Ramsay Commerce
Publisher: London, Longmans
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
to the safety of thenavigation into and out of the harbour of Bombay.In going into the harbour, it is necessary to clear asunken rock, lying almost due east from the light-house, at about H mile distant; and also a bank,called the Middle Ground, lying nearly opposite toand about 1^ mile from the southern extremity ofthe town. (Nicholson and Watsons Plan of Bom-bay Harbour.) Docks.—Bombay is the only port of consequencein British India in which the rise and fall of thetide are so considerable as to admit of the forma-tion of extensive wet docks. At ordinary springtides the rise is about 14 feet, but occasionally ashigh as 17. The capacious docks constructed bythe East India Company are their property, andare for the most part under the direction ofParsees, who, excepting the Chinese, are the mostindustrious and intelligent people of the East.Merchant vessels of the largest class, or from1.300 to 1,400 tons burden, for the cotton trade toChina, have been built in these docks. Frigates
Text Appearing After Image:
Jjomicn: Ijcnqmaru; & Co. BOMBAY 159 Opening the gates -Daily dock hireSuperintendence -Hire of shores-Hire of gangway ladder and line-of-battle ships have also been occasionallyconstructed in them, sometimes under the exclu-sive direction of Parsee artificers. The timberhaving to be brought from a great distance, shipsbuilt at Bombay are very costly; but being, con-trary to the practice in other parts of India, en-tirely constructed of teak, the) are the mostdurable vessels in the world, requiring little re-pair, and often running 50 or 60 years. Being forthe most part built by natives, without any verystrict application of the rules of art, they are com-monly, though not always, heavy sailers. The Bombay port establishment, under Act I.of 1859, consists of the shipping master, a deputy,an accountant, a master attendant and conser-vator of the port, with 2 assistants, and 17 pilots. Rates of Dock CJiarges for Repairs to Ships andSteam Vessels. Large Dock Small Dock Rs. Rs. - 500

Note About Images