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The importance of having wet-docks in which ships could be fitted out was well understood.
"... From her way of speaking they also saw immediately that she too was an Eirisher.... They must be a bonny family when they are all at home!" The Life of Mansie Tailor in Dalkeith. There are two kinds of docks, dry-docks and wet-docks. The former are used for receiving ships in order to their being inspected and repaired.
Wet-docks are formed for the purpose of keeping vessels always afloat.... One of the chief uses of a dock is to keep a uniform level of water, so that the business of loading and unloading ships can be carried on without any interruption.... The first wet-dock for commercial purposes made in this kingdom was formed in the year 1708 at Liverpool, then a place of no importance."
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