America's Naval Heritage
A Catalog of Early Imprints from the Navy Department Library
Shipbuilding and Weapons Technology
Sketch of the Plans,
Present Condition and Proposed Results of the United States Dry
Docks at the Navy Yards of Philadelphia, Kittery, and Pensacola;
upon the New System of Floating Docks, Basin & Railways; Now
Constructing under Contracts with Messrs. Dakin & Moody, and
Gilbert Secor, Made by the Navy Department, under a Law of Congress,
Passed August 3rd. 1848.
Large image of plan of the U.S. drydock at Philadelphia, lithograph.