Author: GIBB, SIR ALEXANDER.
Title: Graving Dock For Capital Ships. Report by Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners. January, 1940. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Presented by Command; ordered to be printed, 24th May, 1940.
Description: First Edition; Foolscap Folio; pp. 32; 1 large b/w perspective view of the proposed graving dock, Garden Island, Sydney, appendices; bound in maroon leather, title lettered in gilt on front, minor browning to pages, otherwise a very good copy. Canberra, L. F. Johnson, Government Printer, 1940. 'The need for a naval graving dock in Australia became critical with the deteriorating world situation in the 1930's. There was little doubt that Australia's security would depend on its commercial sea lanes. The country's ability to maintain the rate at which its naval forces could be repaired and returned to sea would play a large part in its ultimate survival. This would be the greatest engineering feat in Australia's history surpassing even the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It would involve the reclamation of 30 acres between Potts Point and Garden Island and the construction of the graving dock approximately 1,140 feet (345 metres) long, 147 feet (45 metres) wide and 45 feet (14 metres) deep.'- Garden Island.info.

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