MORE NAVAL DOCKS WANTED
LORD BERESFORD'S VIEWS. REPLY BY THE FIRST LORD. (Rec. July 8, 9.25 p.m.) London, July 8. An influential deputation from tJie Chambers of Commerce waited on Mr. R. M'lvenna, First Lord of tho Admiralty, and urged that l dry docks should be provided for tire largest warships at the Tyne, the Humher, and other East Coast ports.
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford stated that Germany had seven docks in the North Sea, and soon would have thirteen. If the British fleet was to carry out the fastest tactics, clean bottoms and docks were essential.
Mr; M'Kenna, in replying, said that floating docks would shortly be completed, and would be stationed on the East Coast with another at Portsmouth.
He hoped the new naval station at Rosyth, on the Firth of Forth, would be completed in four and a half years, and would be asking Parliament shortly for permission to build another dock at Rosyth.
The Tyne, added Mr. M'Kenna, was unsuitable for a largo dry dock. Liverpool had just decided to build enormous docks without tho Admiralty's help and this would mefct all requirements for t'ho West Coast.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
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191MORE NAVAL DOCKS WANTED Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
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