MECHANICAL SAMSON.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 24

MECHANICAL SAMSON.

' AA'hat.is claimed to bo the world's greatest weight-lifting feat was accomplished at Southampton lately, states an English journal, when the lmgc 60 000----ton floating dock, recently added to theport s equipment by the "Southern .Railway Company, lifted' high and dry the 56,551-ton White Star liner Majestic.' Several thousands of spectators watchedthe operations. The docking was accomplished in twenty-five minutes, and in all nine tugs were in attendance edo-in" tho liner into position, the noonday sirens heralding her entranco between the dock walls. The Majestic was drawing 35ft 6in of water when she entered the dock, .and there was 39ft of water over the head blocks. The process, of pumping out the 18,800 ton* of water from the bottom pontoon and side walls the effect of which is to give the dock the necessary buoyancy, commenced, at 1.^5 p.m.. and it was then estimated that the Majestic would be completely inch and dry at about 5.30 p.m. By the end of the first hour and a quarter the liner had been lifted 10ft and the rate of progress was maintained