A particularly interesting invention recently submitted to the Admiralty suggested a floating ferro-concret© dock for torpedo-destroyers. This same idea has already been taken up by the French, M. Hennebique, of Paris, bar. ing designed and completed a similar structure of two storeys, fifty feet in height, seventy-sc*ven feet long, and forty-five feet wide, the walls being six inches thick. It was .built on a slip, way, floated, towed into position in the sea. and sunk to its permanent station. Tor purposes of instruction, torpedoes are fired from it under water. FLUENZOL M —For Throat mini Mn Troub/mm-u
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9620, 28 March 1917, Page 8
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