ROSYTH NAVAL BASE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1016, 4 January 1911, Page 5

ROSYTH NAVAL BASE.

MORE DOCK ACCOMMODATION. By Telegraph-r-Prcss Association—Copyright. ";...' London, January 2. In addition to the original contract for a graving dock, a closed -. basin.. and entranco ;lock capable of being used as a graving dock wijl be made at the Kosyth nival • base. ~" -—..-• ' V! Thb!"foHhcomii>g^ T aval,jEstimates .provide for a dock t capable .of ; taking in Dreadnoughts. '•

STATE-AIDED NAVY DOCKS. . Mr. M'Kenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, gave an interesting hint for the building of Dreadnought-docks partly at private and partly at State - cost in replying a few months ago deputation representing the .Association of Chambers of Commerce, among which Were' representatives of .'.the. following 'places :— ■.' Newcastle Glasgow '.•-'• . Hull Blackburn. . Grimsby Sheffield . Ipswich , Middlesbrough Lord Charles Beresford argued that Germany would soon have, thirteeii such' docks. Mr. M'Kenna replied that the two huge floating docks would soon bo ready; one. would be stationed on tho east coast- and the-otheiv-at-Portsmouth, bu'f'iiiight 'be sent' tb",Rtis,y.tl\\ ..One, dock atßofyth would be ready'ih>four- and a .half-years, the contractor.boing possibly a.year ahead of. the':-seven "years allowed, .and.Mr. M'Kenna hoped?to ask:;Parlianient soon for'another dock. . The Tyno (Jarrow Slake) Si to was not the most suitable for a large dry dock, and the. Humber'not so suitable as the Tyne or. Rbsyth. As to private assist-, ance for the Humbcr scheme, the Admiralty, having to do repairs in the dookyards, must also have' the . graving dock mainly in- its hands. • For tho great new. Mersey dock that is to' he built.' ho expressed the nation's gratitude to Liverpool. Before he. could join State aid to a private scheme: on the east coast, he must consider . the national interest .and also whether one set of 'competing warship by.ilders would be assisted- against others In other districts. •■ . !