Wood shipped from Sweden to Denmark on a giant raft
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Wood shipped from Sweden to Denmark on a giant raft
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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A Cargo of Wood that Shipped Himself
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SWEDEN wanted to
send four huge car-
goes of wood to Den-
mark. Had this de-
sire seized her before |
August, 1914, ships |
would have fought for
the job. But the war
was on, and all the |
ships that hadn't been
sunk by submarines
‘were too busy to bother
with wood. As a result,
Sweden's wood lay for
months in warehouses,
waiting patiently for |
idle ships. But the
ships were never idle.
One fine day when |
wooden ships grew |
popular, the owners of
the woodpile decided |
to make a huge raft
out of it and then tow
itoff. As the wood was |
cut in long, thin strips, |
the job of piling it to-
gether was a difficult
one and lasted nearly
six months. The wood
was held together by
steel cables and wires
so well arranged that
not one beam slipped
out during the trip.
The raft was about
fifty feet wide and four
hundred feet long. It
stood ten feet out of
water and fifteen feet
below. When it was
finished a crew of seven
men were assigned to
it. They watched for
possible breaks in the
wires while two small
boats towed her to
Copenhagen.
- This picture was
taken just after the re-
markable raft reached
Denmark.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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36
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 3, 1919
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