Ten Tugs will Take Big Dock Through Canal
Difficult Passage British Official Mirth ss. Reed. noon. RUGBY, Thursday. The great Singapore floating dock has arrived at Port Said in two parts. The dock will begin the passage through the Suez Canal at dawn on Saturday. The passage will take four days, but shipping will only be stopped for 12 hours at a time, since the dock will wait at Kantara, where the canal is widened, and will afterwards pass through Ismailia and the Bitter Lakes, where ships will be allowed to pass. Ten tugs will be employed. The passage will be a delicate operation, as there will be only 15 feet to spare on each side in the narrow part of the canal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 9
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