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O . LD sailing ships are be- ing remodeled into floating refrigerating plants , on the Pacific Coast . The first ship of the kind to be so reconstructed was the old square rigger , Glory of the Seas , built nearly a half century ago ...
O . LD sailing ships are be- ing remodeled into floating refrigerating plants , on the Pacific Coast . The first ship of the kind to be so reconstructed was the old square rigger , Glory of the Seas , built nearly a half century ago ...
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GREATEST OF GOLD SHIPS By HARRY E. SPEAS CALIFOR NIA'S FIRST GOLD DREDGE The ship used steam power derived from wood - fed boilers , and its machinery was crude and slow . It has long since been dismantled .
GREATEST OF GOLD SHIPS By HARRY E. SPEAS CALIFOR NIA'S FIRST GOLD DREDGE The ship used steam power derived from wood - fed boilers , and its machinery was crude and slow . It has long since been dismantled .
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THE NATOMAS this giant ship . " dredge was ready for work . There was plenty of work ready for the dredge , for it was con- structed in a district where gold pays easily forty cents to the cubic yard of earth , and there are one hundred ...
THE NATOMAS this giant ship . " dredge was ready for work . There was plenty of work ready for the dredge , for it was con- structed in a district where gold pays easily forty cents to the cubic yard of earth , and there are one hundred ...
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