LIVERPOOL’S ENTERPRISE

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 5

LIVERPOOL’S ENTERPRISE

A GIGANTIC DOCK LARGEST IN THE WORLD (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY. July 18. The King- and Queen, who removed ivith their Court to Edinburgh _ last week, concluded their official' visit to Scotland yesterday. They will break their return journey to London at Liverpool, whore the King will open Gladstone Dock, the largest dock in the world, to-morrow. Arrangements have been made to accommodate 1,500 people to witness the opening ceremony, and the King’s speech will be broadcast. The clock has a water area of oyer fifty-eight acres, ringed by three miles of granite-faced quays, on which huge warehouses have been erected. The new dock, which has cost over £7,500,000, 'is situated at the extreme north end of Liverpool’s seven lineal miles of docks, with their thirty-seven miles of quays. Nearly 2,500 men have been employed for many years in creating the new dock on' a" site which was formerly waste. Tho Royal party will, steam direct into tho new dock to-morrow, breaking a silver ribbon stretched across the entrance. Immediately after to-morrow’s opening one of tho largest Atlantic liners will enter from the river to be the first ocean-going vessel to berth in the new dock.