WORLD S LARGEST DOCK TO BE BUILT IN ENGLAND
( United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RUGBY, November 30. 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 Cunard Company are to construct. It will be 1200 feet long, 135 feet wide at the entrance, and 45 feet in depth. The Government is assisting under the Development Loan Guarantees and Grants Act. The new dock will be the seventh in Southampton, excluding the floating
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19242, 2 December 1930, Page 1
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