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22 SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS IN DRY DOCK. The steamer Sir William Siemens was docked recently at the Ecorse floating dry dock of the Great Lakes Engineering THE Marine REVIEW was dry and in another fifteen minutes the damage had been located and men were at work cutting out rivets preparatory to removing the damaged plates, of which there were thirty, Lt lhimeaate ns THE STEAMER SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS IN THE STEEL FLOATING DRY DOCK AT THE ECORSE YARD OF THE GREAT LAKES ENGINEERING Works. While there have been about thirty dock- ings altogether in the new floating dry dock, the Sie- mens was the first 'large steamer to be docked in it. The event there- fore created con- siderable interest in marine circles. The~ photographs accompanying this article are illumi- nating in the ex- treme and well re- veal the capacity of the great struc- ture. The acttal time required to raise the Siemens after she was placed over the blocks was one hour and forty- five minutes. At the expiration of this time the dock WORKS, DETROIT. SHOWING DAMAGES TO THE SIEMENS' Bow. in addition to the broken wheel and bent rudder and frame. The' Sie- mens was --dam- aged in trying to pull the steamer Wm. E. Corey off the rocks at Gull Pstarid last- No- vember. During the great storm which marked the Clostie or 'last naviga- Corey struck the Gull Island reef while the water was at its highest so. that receded season's tion, the stage, it she. was imprisoned fast. After resisting ef- when forts to budge her for she several days, suddenly of, the being the floated Siemens damaged in