NEW FLOATING DOCK
COMING VIA SUEZ A SEVEN MONTHS' TRIP “The famous ocean nigs owned by the International Towing Co.. Rotterdam. are laking the latest dry clock out to New Zealand from WalLs-oiid-on-Ayno via Suez. Macassar and the Torr*»s Strait.” says an article in the Nautical Magazine, published in Glasgow and dated March of thi* y*ear. **lr was found that the dock, which measures 584 feet by 118 feet, wai i«.< large f«*r the Panama Uanal and i*ai cumbersome to risk over I lie* h»*i weather route. As it is weather will have to he studied over (he intended ri'ack and at the slow rate of tli f tow it is estimated tar the passage to Wellington will rake about seven months. The dock can life vessels up to 17.000 tons.”
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 10 April 1931, Page 5
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