NEW GRAVING DOCK
LARGEST IN THE WORLD. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, November 20. (Received Dec. 1, at 5.5 p.m.) The largest graving dock in the world is to be constructed at Southampton by the Southern Railway Company to provide dry docking accommodation for the huge new vessels which the Ounard Company is to construct. It will be 1200 feet long, 135 feet wide at the entrance, and 45 feet deep. The Government is assisting under the Development Loan Guarantees and Grants Act. The new dock will be the seventh in Southampton, excluding the floating dock..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21198, 2 December 1930, Page 9
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