LONDON'S NEW DOCK

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 123, 18 February 1919, Page 6

LONDON'S NEW DOCK

To meet the anticipated activity of the shipping trade,'the Port of London Authority hopes by July to bo sufficiently forward with the new deep-water dock of G5 acres, which will serve as extension of the Royal Albert Dock system, to admit water into the dock, which will have a depth of 38 feet at the impounded level. Ships at the qutset will gain access through a passage, 100 feet wide, leading from the adjoining Royal Albert Dock. But it is expected that five months later the now entrance lock, 800 feet long by 100 feet wide, and with a depth, over the sills of 45 feet below Trinity high-water mark, will be available to' give direct access fi'cm the. Thames. An immediate effect of the throwing open of the deep-water dock will be to permit the use of the capacious dry water dock, now practically completed at its western end. This is 100 feet wide and 750 feet long, and a depth of water of 35 feet on the blocks is provided for. The caisson is being constructed. From the dimensions given it will be s&?n that London will soon he able to repair very large vessels. ■ > ■ The new deep-water dock a feature of which will be jetties, already completed, for cargo discharge, will afford th« amplest facilities for ships of exceptional tonnage and draught.

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