BIG DOCKS.
ro TAKE IN DREADNOUGHTS. NOW BRITAIN STANDS, QUESTION IN THE HOUSE 05| COMMONS. By Telegraph.-press Association.— Copyright, (Received February 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 16th February. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. 'Reginald M'Kenna), in reply to a question put to him in the House of Common 3by Mi. A. H. Burgoy-ne, Unionist member for Kensington North, said thera were in Britain twenty-two dry and floating docks capable of taking in; Dreadnoughts built and being built. Thirteen of these belonged to the Admiralty. Of the total of twenty-two, fourteen, were available for us© in tho North Sea and the Eng-liah Channel,, There were seven Admiralty and five private docks outside the United King-, dom that could accommodate Dread- , noughts. Mr. M'Kenna added that Germany's total of such docks was eleven, eight at which were in the North Sea.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1911, Page 7
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