| Show why they dok dk N noe se in some persona persons have thought it carious curious that the biff big transatlantic liners should at always moor to their piers with their bow inshore to the uninitiated it appears more natural for them to back into their slips and moor with their stem stern inshore and as a matter of fact nearly all of the smaller class of steamships do this but there are reasons including a certain dock regulation why the larger vessels adopt the oppa opposite tite method of getting alongside their wharves one is that their great draft compels them to regulate the hoar hour of sailing by the tide it is generally running a flood tide when they back out from their piers the current sweeps the stem stern up the river BO so that there is little difficulty experienced in getting the ships head pointed down the bay another reason la Is that the majority of the Us big passenger vessels have a preliminary dock trial of their engines before they cast off it their heir moorings to make sure that the machinery is in perfect order the trial generally lasts for three or four hours if moored with stern inshore the backwater from the propellers would be apt to stir up a quantity of ill smell smelling iol mud besides doing damage to the dock itself the coasting vessels are not BO so particular and only turn their propellers over a few times before casting off their lines on account of their slight draft they are independent of the tide and can go to sea when ever they like likener new york times timm |
