WELLINGTON'S FLOATING DOCK.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 16 October 1930, Page 18

WELLINGTON'S FLOATING DOCK.

!' : ♦ i THE INSURANCE QUESTION. ]{ Craoic otre owv coiaespondekt.) -1 5 " LONDON, September s_. A paragraph appears in.a.number of . ifingliish newspapers affirming that already the insurance of- the great , .floating dock for Wellingtpn Harbour, to be constructed by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Bichardson, of Wallsend-on-Tyne, is engaging the attention of the underwriters. • ------ The long journey from the North-East coast of - England to New Zealand, involves many rules (the . paragraph continues). As a rule care is -taken to arrange that the big tows;are carried out in the summer months, but in*the case of the towage of a floating dock fromthis country to New Zealand the effects i of different seasons will need to be ' considered. One of the moßt important > and raeceasful enterprises of the kind I 'in recent years was the towage in -1928 I of the great floating dock (also built ; by Swan, ' Hunter and Wigham I Eiehardson) for Singapore, which was undertaken by a convoy of Dutch tugs. ; No doubt the question of British tugs i . will again be raised in the ease of the i' New Zealand l stances the work of delivering the dock r la New Zealand will be formidable, and underwriters may be expected' to consider carefally the arrangements •' for.the delivery of th,e structere.