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DOPY PLAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 604 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLAN . MIDSHIP See also:SECTION. A, See also:Deck. C, See also:Side See also:air-cases above deck. B, Relieving valves for auto- E, See also:Wale, or See also:fender. G, See also:Water-See also:ballast tanks. matic See also:discharge of water off deck. coasters and fishing-boats have in See also:great measure disappeared, their places being taken by steamers and See also:steam trawlers. The cost of the See also:building and equipping of pulling and sailing See also:life-boats has materially increased, more especially since 1898, the increase being mainly due to improvements and the seriously augmented charges for materials and labour. In 1881 the See also:average cost of a fully-equipped life-See also:boat and See also:carriage was £6so, whereas at the end of 1901 it amounted to £1000, the average See also:annual cost of maintaining a station having risen to about £125. The transporting-carriage continues to be a most important See also:part of the equipment of life-boats, generally of the self-righting type, and is indispensable where it is necessary to See also:launch the boats at any point not in the immediate vicinity of the boat-See also:house. It is not, however, usual to See also:supply carriages to boats of larger dimensions than 37 ft. in length by 9 ft. See also:beam, those in excess as regards length and beam being either launched by means of See also:special slipways or kept afloat.

The transporting-carriage of to-See also:

day has been rendered particularly useful at places where the See also:beach is soft, sandy or shingly, by the introduction in 1888 of Tipping's See also:sand-plates. They are composedof an endless plateway or jointed See also:wheel See also:tyre fitted to the See also:main wheels of the carriage, thereby enabling the boat to be transferred with rapidity and with greatly decreased labour over beach and soft sand.

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