Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 142" video.

  1.  @vodeankandosii3982  First order of business would seem to be to build a larger drydock at Cockatoo Island. According to my 1928 USN port guide, the larger of the two docks at Cockatoo was 630' over the blocks and 84' wide. There was a privately owned dock in Woolwich that was 850' over the blocks, but only 83' wide. Renown, for instance, would not fit in either, due to it's 90' beam. The Admiralty built a large enough dock to handle anything existing or planned in Singapore, in the late 30s, which was lost to Allied use when the war was barely started. The Cook dock in Sydney harbor, large enough to handle anything, did not open until 1945. The Aussies started looking at large drydock options in 1938, just as the King George dock in Singapore was opening. The planning and construction for the King George dock had started in 1928. 20/20 hindsight says the Admiralty and the RAN should have cooperated to share the costs of building a large dock at Sydney, instead of Singapore, but didn't work out that way.
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