Port charges and requirements on vessels in the various ports of the world; With tables of moneys, weights, and measures of all nations, and a telegraphic codex for masters, owners, and ship brokers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...with ice from December to April. Pilots are on the lookout for inward-bound vessels at Bic Island, 130 miles down the river; also tugboats are plenty. For many years past this port has suffered serious inconvenience from the presence of several nests of lost anchors and chains in the roadway of the harbor, which had been accumulating till they became a terror to the masters of vessels, for an anchor once caught in one of these nests was irrecoverably lost, with all the cable under water. The Harbor Commissioners have recently built a powerful lifting barge, with which they have removed a number of the most formidable of these nests, and pretty well cleared the harbor of this impediment. They have recovered 161 large anchors and 4700 fathoms of chain cable. This has relieved the harbor of a serious and dangerous obstruction, for though there is an abundant depth of water, a vessel anchored at low tide with a limited supply of chain was liable to be drawn with her bows unsafely low on the rise of a full tide, which here varies over seventeen feet. Very few and only small obstructions of this kind remain. An extensive improvement of the harbor is in progress, which consists of an inclosure of a large portion of the mouth of the St. Charles River with an embankment, so as to form an increased extent of dockage, along which the track of the North Shore Railway is to be laid. A commencement has been made upon this work which is now suspended for the winter (1S78-1879), and the foundations are laid out and dredged ready for operations on the opening of the spring. In connection with this a graving-dock is in process of erection. Both these improvements are the work of the Dominion Government. Sailing vessels arrived in 1878, 958; tonnage, 763,423. Steamships, 160;...