NEW FLOATING DOCK.
TO REPAIR SHIPS AT SEA
DESIGNED BY GERMAN ENGINEER.
ii CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COP Y BIGHT. Berlin, Feb. 21.
A Hamburg engineer has invented a floating dock for effecting repairs on the high sea*. The dock is two hundred yards long and is capable of, a speed of fourteen miles an hour. The base and isides consist of air-chambers which can be. filled or emptied to lower or raise the dock, which is capable of dealing with ships of 15,C00 tons. Se\ernl foreign marine departments, including the British, are negotiating with the inventor.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 February 1927, Page 5
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96NEW FLOATING DOCK. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 February 1927, Page 5
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