NORTH SEA NAVAL BASE.
( A DECADE'S". WORK.. . Dt m.BQRArU—PnESS ASSOCUTIOS—COPtBIQHT. London,. "Decembor ." 3. The First Lord of. tho -Admiralty, ,Lord Tweedinouth, has announced that"; contracts aro being taken to establish, a naySrbase' at ltosyth (on the Firth of Forth),- to acommodate 112 warships.-, „ Th?, .;\yprk .will ;b« completed in a decade.,. . _. In 1003 the Govofnnicnt-.acquired, for the put pores of a naval base, a'tract of land, extending over three miles< ; oh tho-north shore of tho Firth of Forth,.,-at St. Jfargatct's llope, opposite Queensferry,;. and;-, just 1 inside r the I 1 orth Bridge. Tho work done so far has been principally water supply,"Tailway connection, and' boring for The sum of ,£105,000 was voted ,in,
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 5
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114NORTH SEA NAVAL BASE. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 5
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