GERMAN NEWS.
[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]
GERMAN INVENTION. RERUN. February 21
A Hamburg engineer lias invented a floating dock for effecting repairs on the high seas. The dock is two hundred yards long, and is capable of a speed of fourteen miles an hour. Its base and sides consist of air chambers, which (*:m he filled or emptied to lower or raise l the dock, which is capable of dealing with ships of fifteen thousand tons. Several foreign Marine Departments. including the British, are negotiating with the inventor.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1927, Page 2
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