NEW GRAVING DOCK AT SYDNEY
Work Nearly Completed
(Special Correspondent, N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, November 6.
Sydney’s new naval graving dock, the biggest in the Southern Hemisphere, is nearing completion. It has been flooded and tests have been made for fitting the lock gates. The dock is large enough to accommodate the biggest battleship afloat or two smaller vessels at one time.' A good deal of superficial work remains before the dock can be commissioned.
Preliminary work was begun soon after the outbreak of the war late in 1939. The first estimates were that it would cost about £3,000,000. The latest estimates place the cost at nearly £7,000,000.
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Southland Times, Issue 25514, 7 November 1944, Page 5
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