LOSS OF FLOATING DOCK
COLLAPSE AT TRINCOMALEE
LONDON, September 6. Among the long withheld stories that can now be told is that of a floating dry-dock which capsized at Trincomalee, the main base of the British East Indies Station Command, and the consequent disabling of H.M.S. Valiant, says Reuters correspondent. The dock, a prefabricated American job, was assembled at Calcutta and taken to Trincomalee. It promptly collapsed when the Valiant, the first battleship to use it, entered. The loss of the dock at that stage of the war was not critical, but it sank inside one of the narrowest entries "to the inner anchorages, reducing Trincomalee to a stores and fuelling anchorage with minor repair facilities, and necessitating long voyages to rear bases in Africa and Australia for periodic overhauls.** The Valiant herself had to be taken to Suez for repair. She was reported seaworthy, but is now obsolete.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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149LOSS OF FLOATING DOCK Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 59, 7 September 1945, Page 7
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