Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — The Greatest Dry Dock. [ARTICLE]

The Greatest Dry Dock.

New York is to have the largest dry dock in the world. The cradle upon which monster vessels will rest above the water while having the hull scraped and the scams closed will be built to accommodate a vessel 1,200 feet long, or 500 feet longer than the biggest steamship now afloat. It is predicted within the next ten years that vessels 1,000 feet in length will be plentiful.