FLOATING DOCK
LAUNCHING CEREMONY. WELLINGTON ! S PROJECT. LONDON, May 23. A floating dock 584 ft. long, with a lifting capacity of 17,000 tons, is being launched at Swan and Hunters’, Wall-send-on-Tyne, on May 30. The dock, with two tugs in attendance, will leave in September for the record tow to Wellington, via Suez and Singapore. Mrs A. G. Barnett, wife of the secretary' of the. Wellington Harbour Board, will name it the Jubilee Dock in commemoration of the Board’s jubilee.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 7
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80FLOATING DOCK Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 7
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