Proceeding with the necessary repairs.

Some thousand workmen, many of them convicts, are employed in this yard.

They have in dock, receiving her copper, a heavy steam frigate constructed here, and another still larger on the stocks.

Immense quantities of timber are in the docks, and though the water is salt it is not attacked by the worm, the ebb and flow of the tide preventing it.

Timber which has been forty years in these docks is perfectly sound.