DOCKS

are for various purposes. Wet Docks are for loading and unloading ve els in Dry Docks or Graving Docks fire for examining and; repairing them in and Floating Docks may be sunk under a ve el and; then raised with the ve el. The first Wet Docks in England were the Commercial Docks in London, about 1660. The West India Docks date about 1800, and were followed by the East India, Mill wall, London, St. Katharine, and Victoria Docks. These London Liverpool—six Docks are the long—coming largest in the world, those of