There are of course a large number of ship building concerns on inland waterways that possess divers kinds of docking facilities for ships. For instance: the Buffalo Dry Dock Company is equipped to build ships of from 4,000 to 5,000 tons. It has four docks with overall length of 305 feet, 358 feet, 381 feet and 478 feet, respectively, while the widths at the top are 38 feet, 43 feet, 45 feet and 84 feet, struction and repair of ships. Across the river, at Camden, is located the immense plant of the New York Shipbuilding Company, equipped with strictly modern facilities for the construction and repair of vessels of any size.
At Newport News, Va., is located the New port News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany. The facilities of this concern are such that it is able to undertake the construction or repair of any class of ship, mercantile or naval. Among its equipment are two Simpson dry docks, 610 and 827 feet in length, capable of docking vessels up to 64 feet beam.
The United States Naval Station at Algiers, in the vicinity of New Orleans, possesses a steel floating dock of 525 feet in length, there being in addition at New Orleans under private ownership two floating docks of 200 feet and 300 feet in length, respectively. These two
floating docks may be used together, giving a length, on the keel blocks, of 487 feet.
On the Pacific Coast there is the California Dry Dock Company, at San Francisco, having a masonry dock of 490 feet in length, and a depth of water 23 feet above the sill. The Union Iron Works in the same city has a steel respectively. The depth of the water corre sponding above the still is 11, 14, 12.5 and 60 feet.
As a rule most harbors are unsightly in ap pearance. However, within the past generation many cities, to overcome this unsightliness, have spent large sums of money to beautify or improve the general appearance of their harbor approaches by the construction of quay walls, sea gates, recreation piers and parking.