HAZARDOUS TASK
TOWINO FLOATING DOCK GREATEST SEA PROBLEM. WORK GIVEN TO DUTCH FIRM 8Y CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 11. The “Morning Post” says that the Admiralty has placed a contract for towing the fifty thousand tons floating dock to Singapore, with a Dutch firm. The task presents the greatest problem of sea transport ever undertaken and British firms admit that the Dutch company is the only firm in the world capable of undertaking the proposition at a reasonable price. The dock will be taken in two sections, with four of the most powerful tugs to each section. An idea of its size is afforded by the statement that there is sufficient space within it to comfortably house the world’s biggest liner. There is a floor space for sixty thousand men and more than one hundred miles of electric cable.
The most hazardous part of the journey will bo through the Suez 'Canal, which will 'be entirely cleared of traffic, because the highest speed passible is three miles an hour.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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173HAZARDOUS TASK Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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