SINGAPORE BASE.
FLOATING DOCKS ADVOCATED. LONDON, June 25. At a combined meeting of naval architects, engineers, and shipbuidlers, Captain; D. M. Munro and C. E. Staples read a paper on advanced naval bases. Dealing with Singapore, they contended that it would be wrong to iustal a permanent shore base and excavated docks. It would be better and cheaper if a. floating base were stationed in a strategic position so that in war time it could be moved to tlie position required. During the discussion, Admiral Niblack, of America, declared that there could be nothing of greater advantage to tho British Empire than a permanent base at Singapore, lie disagreed with the paper as mobile floating bases required to be heavily fortified and were cumbrous and dangerous to transport. Admiral Deyncourt supported floating docks, which iiad the added advantage that they could easily be lengthened to keep pace with the increasing length of capital ships. Admiral Zczers Ryser, secretary to the Netherlands Navy, said that permanent bases attracted fleets when often the best defence was to take to the open sea. Admiral Power urged the immediate construction of a floating dock at Singapore which could be transferred when a permanent dock was built. —A and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1053, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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