TIMBER RAFTS
TOWING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC SAVING SHIPPING SPACE (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 5. Huge rafts of timber, it is suggested in shipping quarters, could be towed across the Atlantic to replace supplies of Scandinavian and Baltic soft wood, reports the Evening Standard. This would save valuable tonnage—if the plan were successful. A similar project was discussed during the last war. It was proposed to fit machinery and do away with the need for tugs. The idea, however, never advanced to the practical stage. The towing of large timber rafts is common in the Baltic and North America. In 1918, a raft of sawn timber about 350 feet in length by 50 feet in breadth and 25 feet in depth was towed from a Finnish port to Copenhagen. Preparations were made to build several of these rafts for towing across the North Sea to this country. But the end of the war caused the scheme to be abandoned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 7
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160TIMBER RAFTS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21208, 3 September 1940, Page 7
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