<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368037" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Globtik Tokyo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great oil companies they paid, <br>Ishikawajima laid<br>For a mighty ship a keel, <br>Built her out of solid steel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Big as supertankers go<br>was the Globtik Tokyo, <br>Length twelve hundred feet or so, <br>was the Globtik Tokyo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fifty thousand horse power geared, <br>Through the ocean's waters sheared.<br>Sixteen knots her speed at top, <br>Took three miles for her to stop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Half a million tons displaced, <br>Engineers a problem faced: <br>This the largest ship on Earth, <br>For repairs where would she berth? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the globe there was no slip<br>That would take this super ship; <br>They must build a giant dry dock, <br>So men planned around the clock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who would have the expertise? <br>Who would this great challenge seize? <br>Men who'd built the Snowy Scheme; <br>Men who weren't afraid to dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the Sembawang shipyard, <br>Six thousand men toiling hard.<br>Re-bar tied and concrete poured, <br>The great walls, upward they soared.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tons of concrete still they pour; <br>Six feet thick the dry dock floor.<br>On a thousand piles it sits, <br>Driven deep by mighty hits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Built by Theiss and Petrosea; <br>Filled with water from the sea.<br>In sails the great ship in turn; <br>Fits so neat from stem to stern.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thirty feet she takes of draught; <br>Open up the culvert shaft.<br>Drain the water level low; <br>They've slipped - the Globtik Tokyo.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dennis+N.+O%27Brien">Dennis N. O'Brien</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368037" data-title="The Globtik Tokyo de Dennis N. O'Brien" data-description="Great oil companies they paid, Ishikawajima laid For a mighty ship a keel, Built her out of solid steel. Big as supertankers go was the Globtik Tokyo, Length twelve hundred feet or so, was the Globtik Tokyo. Fifty thousand horse power geared..."></div> </div> </div>

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