PRESENT DREADNOUGHT DOCKS.
The Civil Lord of the Admiralty made the following statement in tho House of Commons on April 25, 1907:— "We had at home five Government docks capable of taking the Dreadnought; abroad eight. Of the docks at home, four were at Keyham and one was at Portsmouth. Of docks belonging to the Government capable o£ > taking the Invincible typo, tlicro were eight at liome and three abroad. There were private docks at homo capable of taking tho Dreadnought to tho number of ten; abroad three. There was a grand total of 2G docks in British territory capable of taking the Dreadnought."
In last year's Estimates tho sum of .£30,032 was provided for the construction of floating docks.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19100709.2.55
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
120PRESENT DREADNOUGHT DOCKS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in