Posted By: Walt Mathers on: 07/26/2010 09:19:40 EDTSubject: First Drydock Constructed at Baltimore Harbor
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Posted By: Walt Mathers on: 07/26/2010 09:19:40 EDT Subject: First Drydock Constructed at Baltimore Harbor |
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The first dry-dock ever constructed in Baltimore was built by Messrs. William E. Woodall & Co., at the wharf of Charles Reeder, foot of Hughes Street, south side of the Basin, in 1874. It had a capacity of over two thousand tons. Its width was eighty feet, depth of hold seven feet, and height of walls thirty feet. The frame was of white oak fifteen inches square, and the outside of Georgia yellow pine. About one million feet of timber was used in its construction. The machinery was built by Charles Reeder & Co., and consisted of a forty horse-power engine and twenty-eight pumps. The dock was a floating one, and was towed to the lower end of Fell's Point and anchored in the stream. The first vessel docked was the United States steamer " Heliotrope," in November, 1874. In 1860, Messrs. Farraday and Woodall built a marine railway in connection with their shipyard at the foot of Montgomery Street. Source: History OF BALTIMORE CITY AND COUNTY FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY: BY J. THOMAS SCHARF, A.M., PHILA. 1881 p. 303 |