 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1900 - 822 páginas
...miles from the nearest point of the mainland. Besides supplying the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of retuge for medium-draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. The mean rise and fall of... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1900 - 1170 páginas
...the eastern end of Long Island, and about 10 miles distant from the nearest point of the mainland. The object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium-draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. • Before the construction of the... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1901 - 858 páginas
...of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an important point of our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal station...the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. The mean rise and fall of the tide... | |
 | 1902 - 1084 páginas
...the eastern end of Long Island, and about 10 miles distant from the nearest point of the mainland. The object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium-draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. Before the construction of the present... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1903 - 1162 páginas
...the eastern end of Long Island, and about 10 miles distant from the nearest point of the mainland. The object of the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium-draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. Before the construction of the present... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1901 - 848 páginas
...of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an important point of our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal station...the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium draft vessels engaged in foreign and coastwise commerce. The mean rise and fall of the tide... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1881 - 1118 páginas
...mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an imI*>rtant point on our shores lor ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected...and its position renders it of national importance. No appropriation is asked for tbe fiscal year ending June 30, 1883. Block Island is in tlio Newport... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1886 - 908 páginas
...nearest point is about 10 miles from the mainland. Besides the wants of the mackerel fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are pass39 E ing the island at all times and on all sides of it, and its position renders it o^national... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1893 - 1288 páginas
...eoast navigation tbe island is an important point on our shores for oeeau navigation. It bas a sip nal station connected by submarine telegraph with the...and its position renders it of national importance. Theobjectof the improvement is to furnish a harbor of refuge for medium-draft vessels eiig-age»! in... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1884 - 986 páginas
...nearest point is about 10 miles south of the mainland. Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an...ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected bj submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are passing the islands at all times and ou all sides... | |
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Besides the wants of the mackerel-fishing fleet and the general coast navigation, the island is an important point on our shores for ocean navigation. It has a signal station connected by submarine telegraph with the mainland. Vessels are passing the... 
