SIMONSTOWN DOCK.
VISIBLE EVIDENCE OF IM PERIAL POWER.
Received December 18, 8.5 a.m
CAPETOWN, December 17
The South African Union Convention delegates visited the naval docks at Simonstown, and were deeply impressed with the works as a visible evidence of Imperial power.
The docks are able to accommodate the Dreadnought, or any vessel afloat except the Cunard liner Mauritania. They cost two and a half millions sterling.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3074, 19 December 1908, Page 5
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67SIMONSTOWN DOCK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3074, 19 December 1908, Page 5
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