HUGE GRAVING DOCK
MAIN MEASUREMENTS [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, Nov. 29. The largest graving dock in the world is to be constructed at Southampton by the Southern Railway Company to provide dry docking accommodation for a huge new vessel which the Cunard Company is to construct. It will be 1200 feet long and 135 feet wide at the entrance, with a 45 feet 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 dock.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 439, 3 December 1930, Page 7
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