WORLD’S LARGEST DRY DOCK
COST OF OVER £1,000,000. CONSTRUCTION AT SOUTHAMPTON. (British Official Wirelfiew.i RUGBY, Dec. 12. It is understood that despite the suspension of work on the giant Cunarder at present on the stocks at Clydeside the Southern Railway will proceed with its scheme for the construction of the world’s largest dry dock at Southampton, which is to cost over £1.000,000. It is part of a dock extension scheme estimated to cost £13,000,000, , , Suspension of the construction ot the Cunarder may be followed by a stoppage of woik on the He de France, costing £6,000,000, with which France hopes to regain the blue riband of the Atlantic, says a Paris message. It is now found that a further considerable State grant will be necessary to complete the vessel.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 15 December 1931, Page 5
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