Word: topmasts
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Dates: during 1889-1889
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...route would require a tunnel to be drilled through solid rock, high enough to allow there lower masts of a ship to pass under. This trunnel would have been very expensive, and it was also found that the expense that would have to be increased in sending down the topmast of vessels would offset the advantage gained by the canal, so the scheme was a bandoned. The plan of a ship railway was declared by engineers impracticable for mechanical reasons and by seamen, on account of the strain imposed on a vessels hull by lifting it out of water...