TO MAKE THE TIDE WORK.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 71, 25 March 1907, Page 3

TO MAKE THE TIDE WORK.

IMPORTANT SCHEME TO DEEPEN THE-MERSEY CHANNEL.

LONDON, Feb. 4. The Mersey docks and Harbour Board is about to make a bold bid to keep the great American liners at Liverpool. It has decided to start work next month on an enormous engineering: scheme in the Mersey Estuary. A training wall two miles long and twelve feet high will be laid down in the main channel at the side of the great sand bank at the bar.

The scheme, which has been devised by six eminent naval engineers, will concentrate, it is believed, the tidal current in such a way as to scour-out the bottom of the channel and produce a permanent depth of forty feet, corresponding with the new deep channel which is being constructed at New York.

If a liner hitherto has reached the Mersey bar at low tide it has been compelled to wait for hours for sufficiency of water,.and this has been mentioned by the Cunard Company as a reason why they might possibly have to send the Lusitania and Mauretania to (Southampton.