Shipbreaking
In 1921 Cox had branched out into shipbreaking and opened a yard at Queenborough, at the Isle of Sheppey on the Thames Estuary. There Cox broke up and sold off an assortment of war surplus vessels, including two British battleships HMS Erin and HMS Orion and some ex-German naval items including a large floating dock taken as reparation following the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet prior to the Armistice.
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