WORLD’S LARGEST
SOUTHAMPTON DRY DOCK. (Per British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 20. The world’s largest dry dock will bo opened at Southampton on Wednesday when the royal yachts Victoria and Albert, with Their Majesties aboard, will bleak the red, white and blue ribbon stretched across the entrance of the dock, It cost over £2,000,000, and is part of the Southern Railway Coy's £13,000,000 dock extension scheme. It constitutes one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of British engineering. The clock holds 260,000 tons of water, and the sea is kept back by a huge steel door of a weight of 4600 tons,
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1933, Page 5
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104WORLD’S LARGEST Hokitika Guardian, 24 July 1933, Page 5
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