LIVERPOOL’S NEW DOCK
OPENED BY THE KING TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 20. The King and Queen at Liverpool opened the Gladstone Dock, a system 'which has cost £7,500,000. The total length of quays at which vessels can be moored is three miles. The entrance to the lock is a triumph of engineering, making the dock accessible to the largest ships afloat at any state of the tide. The quayside sheds provide sixty and a-half acres of floor space. Tho King, dressed as an admiral of the fleet, stood at the salute on the bridge of the steamer Galatea as tho Vessel cut tho silk ribbon across the entrance to the lock iu the presence of tens of thousands of cheering spectators. Their Majesties afterwards returned to Loudon.
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Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5
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131LIVERPOOL’S NEW DOCK Evening Star, Issue 19614, 21 July 1927, Page 5
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