LARGEST FLOATING DOCK.
(LONDON, June 11. The world's largest floating dock, surrendered by the Germans under the l’eace Tienty, is being prepared at Chatham, for use at the new British naval base at Singapore. Eight hundred men are re-building three sections which were rendered useless bv the Germans. The sections will be 100 ft. long. 80ft. wide, and 100 ft. high, and when they have been added, the dock will be capable of receiving the largest battleship afloat, as well ns the two new great warships, Nelson and Rodney, now building.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1923, Page 2
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94LARGEST FLOATING DOCK. Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1923, Page 2
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