LONDON'S NEW DOCKS.

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 68, 20 March 1920, Page 11

LONDON'S NEW DOCKS.

The Port of London Authority propose to bring into' use on 31st March the new deep'water dock of 65 acres, which. has been constructed immediately to tho southward of the Royal Albert Dock. Unfortunately, delays in the delivery of the gates'and bridges will prevent ■ the lock, which is 800 ft long by 100 ft wide and 45ft deep below Trinity High Water, and will directly link up the dock with the River Thames, being used for some little timo to come. But access in the meantime will be afforded by a passago way, 100 ft wide, connecting with Royal Albert Dock at a point conveniently near the entrance basin. The new dock, which will form a valuable addition to London's accommodation for large vessels, will have a depth of 38ft and will offer about 10,000 lineal feet of quayage, fringed by capacious transit sheds, and intersected by'railway lines and roads for passenger and goods traffic. A special featuro'is tho provision of seven jetties of reinforced concrete, which will provide berthage for that number of large vessels, and special facilities for the transmission of goods direct from ship to barge. An incidental result of tho ' filling "of the new deep water dock will be that it will immediately render available for ship-repairing purposes the new dry. dock, forming by no means an unimportant part of the extension programme. This dry dock, which is 75Offc. long and 100 ft wide, with a depth of 35ft on the blocks, will be the largest iri the Port of London. London can well do with these increased facilities and it certainly is some evidence of the desire of the Authority to keep abreast of the increasing demands of shipping that such rapid progress has been made with their improvement schemes during the unsettled circumstances whioh have obtained during the last five yuars.