The Panama Canal

Our cabin was on the second deck—Baja—above the life boats,
and directly above the support between the 4^th and 5^th boats.

Would you like some canal statistics?
Well, here they are. If you're not interested, click to go to the next page.

DIMENSION	Feet	WEIGHT	Tons
Length of each loch chamber	1,000	Weight of each towing locomotive	55
Width of each loch chamber	110	Lock gate leaves	390-730
Depth of each loch chamber	70	DISTANCE	Miles
Minimum chamber water depth	40	Length of canal,
Width of each gate leaf	60	deep water to deep water	50
Height of lock gates	47-82	Shoreline of Gatun Lake	1,100
Thickness gate leaf	7	Distance saved by ships,
Diameter of main culvert	18	N.Y. to San Francisco	7,873