DOVER HARBOUR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 5

DOVER HARBOUR.

TOO EXPOSED FOR DREADNOUGHT DOCK. INDIGNATION WITH ADMIRALTY. By TclcgraDh-Prcsa Asaociation-CoDyricht.

,;■ '.-.(Eeo; January.s,. 9.30 p.m.): .;-..- : '•-■•■■■,'.■'. ', London, January 5. The "Daily Telegraph" Reports;. that there is great: indignation at Dover, over the Admiralty not' permitting the' Graving Docks Company to : construct; in pursuance of its_ Act of Pai-liament, a graving dock large enough to admit a Dreadnought. Tho . alleges that the-position is'too 'exposed iii war- ■■" .;■■. '.:■'■ '.i-.;^- ;, -'. •-' ■:;, ■■.•■■-. .'■ ■". •.-■•'.■■

■ The company's scheme" is estimated to cost ; four million, 1 and would afford em 7 ployment to hundreds. of. unemployed. - . : [The development' of under-water warfareand the. inception of a German submarine flotilla are factors in the' ques- : tiony. but the Dover harbour works have been condemned on'other grounds.. The 'DailyMail"!wrote some time ago: "The, naval harbour at Dover, is- recognised in naval. circles as ■ one of the. most. costly of all'. Admiralty blunders. The whole construction has been a gigantic muddle. Moorings, for, different classes.'of vessels have been laid: down, and, •:■ being found unsuitable^ 1 taken, up again immediately; afterwards. ; The harbour is .still practically, useless. :. -.•■'.■ .-The' entrances ;aro dangerous, the accommodation; too small, and; tie ;western : entrance admits'heavy seas.from 1 the,south-west,■ the only/quarter in , which' Dover; requires to be protected .from; great wave; force'; ■'.-•There; have, already.been several-casualties in the.har-: bou'r,'land the:Hamburg-American Com-pany-decided; to abandon the,place as'a port.of call,' because 'in ; the present..state, there: 'is not;suSicieht safety -for.•■large .vessels. , ' , '] l yv-vV.v^".''. ; '' ;: '■'}• >' '?? ; - : - ; -.''