Word: docks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen Victoria's time Southampton began to put out its claw in earnest. Dredges deepened the harbor. In 1892 the then London & South Western Railway took over the docks, so that by 1914 Southampton was No. 1 port of embarkation for Britain's armies. Last week Southamptonites, now eager for the title of world's No. 1 port, felt they were getting somewhere when King George came to open what Britain claims to be the world's biggest dry dock (1,200 ft. long by 135 ft. wide at the entrance...
...that slipped between green flats and gravel scarps up Southampton Water. It steamed past the claw, past the great moored ocean liners packed for the day with sightseers, past the Empress of Britain loaded with schoolchildren, past massed choirs singing "Rule Britannia." It sailed toward a great spur of dock enclosing a bay and 400 acres of reclaimed land. Here, on the spearhead of Southampton's $65,000,000 port improvement project was a dry dock, built for $6,250,000, fit to bed down a 100,000-ton liner such as does not now exist. Through its gate...
...white and blue ribbon, but the caisson did not drop behind it. The King in his Admiral-of-the-Fleet uniform led Queen Mary and the Duke & Duchess of York down the gangway to a royal box on the quay. He made a speech calling the dry dock a good thing. Chairman Gerald...
...Loder of the Southern Railway, which built the dock, made a speech agreeing that the dry dock was a good thing. The Lord Bishop of Winchester invoked a blessing. Somebody handed Queen 'Mary a silver chalice in which were mixed several kinds of Empire wines. She spilled the mixed wines over the side, watched them spread oilily among float ing cables of flowers. Southamptonites cheered themselves hysterical. The royal family climbed briskly back into the Victoria & Albert, steamed down Southampton Water toward Cowes...
...luncheon after the ceremony last week Cunard's plow-chinned Board Chairman Sir Percy Bates uprose to say that No. 534 "had survived all sorts of criticism. The theory and design of the ship are correct. The ship is the right size; therefore her new dock is right...