Show BUILT FOR SHALLOW WATER Peculiar Marine Institution on New England Coast Was Known In Ino o 1842 as the Camel In the year 1842 a n queer marine Institution Institution institution In In- mn made e its Us appearance In Nantucket Nan Nan- an- an and bore the name of camel These camels were really huge floating dry docks for carrying ships over o the bar where the depth of water grater had been gradually decreasing since 1830 Being flat bottomed the camels could float In water very much shallower than a n loa loaded ed ship required They were like two long large boxes floatIng float float- Ing lag sid by side and held together at atthe atthe atthe the ends by large Iron chains The outer sides were up and down but the Inner sides were curved cuned making when the two sections were drawn together an Interior basin just the shape of the bottom of a ship 4 The plan was for the camels to be separated far fur enough to allow the ships to be hauled Into the basin between between between be be- tween the two sections then to be drawn and hel held fastened together by bythe bythe bythe the chains holding the ship between them so that the camels and und the ship could then be towed over the shallow places In the channel to the wharf |