NEW GRAVING DOCK
LARGEST IN WORLD
SEVENTH AT SOUTHAMPTON
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 29th November. The largest graving dock ill the world is to be constructed at Southampton by tho Southern Railway Company to provide dry docking accommodation for a huge new vessel which the Cunard Company is to construct. It will bo 1200 feet long and 135 feet wide at tho entrance,' with a 45 feet depth. The Government is assisting under the .Development Loan Guarantees and Grants Act. The new dock will be the seventh in Southampton, excluding the floating dock.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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93NEW GRAVING DOCK Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 132, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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