Show HUGE FLOATING DOCK Navy Department Will Call for Bids for Construction Washington Aug fThc Navy de parlmcnt will soon call for bids for a huge floating dock to accommodate a > lGOOOlon imttrsshipr to be 1 tl1tJ In tluv United Slates and flouted over to the Philippines This will be one of the largest lIon tinS dry docks ever constructed con-structed The amount available is 51200000 and Admiral Endicott of the bureau of yards and docks has already completed the specifications under which the huge structure will be built Whether it will be lowed across the Pacific or across the Atlantic through the Suez canal will depend upon the place of Its construction but In any event the towing of this gigantic steel structure such a distance will be a formidable for-midable undertaking |