ROSYTH NAVAL BASE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 427, 9 February 1909, Page 7

ROSYTH NAVAL BASE.

'■"..:■ , TO COST/£3<250,000.'v :Ka M-V (BI TKt.EOR*Pa—ritF,si'ASSOCIATION—COFIBWiIXj. (Reo. February 8,1Q.2Q p.m.)- ,; ■■■■■-■•..■ . '. London, jebruary'B. , -Messrs. GibbjEaston. and Son, ;of.Westminster, have contracted for the construction of the naval base at Resyth, at £8,250,000. ,' r ; ■■'. The scheme for a naval base-affEWtK-was' ■ thus: defined by, Lord Tweediuouth■.;;■ '■■'-' '"■ "•■' "Along the whole east'coastof'Bnglandand; Scotland we had not a -'dock' oapable of aceoniA. modating our great fighting-ships/; anjlJMGaV'fc eminent had qaoided- to -establiali establishment in the TTirth of l?orth.at.a:p]a<fe.. called Rosyth.- This, they had .come tq the; conclusion, would be tie icaoat. suitable" •place,.and one most useful .to. the ;Na,yy,';: Th|i6 : .tß|jC. proposed to construct , in■theflrst-place o. grar-" ing-dook capable, of taking our biggest ships;, then a big Dasjn, and''qu'aya which" wbuld;,'ae* commodate twenty-two warships alongside- tliemV"lf. there were dotible-banks' provided; forty-i four warships could ba aoooirmodnted.' there' were considerable:; land (defences -.in,;tha. Forth, and they,would play a very,.subatantialpart in defence in tha event of a foreign attack,-. It was a very serious;resolution for.the Govern: ment to have arrived aly but haMieyed.it'wae to the advantage-of the 'country, and.be.:did, not think that when the works were co'm.'pleted|' they would involve any: very increased oast-oij' the dookyard establishments ,of, the , country." ■