Hongkong Kowloon Dock

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Title

Hongkong Kowloon Dock

Subject

KW: Hung Hum (Kowloon Dock)

Description

In early colonial Hong Kong shipwrights used traditional skills to build junks and sampans and later acquired new skills by building western style ships. A considerable change came with the construction of dock facilities to build and repair iron steamships.

John Lamont completed HK’s first dry dock in Aberdeen in 1860. The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company’s dry dock started operations at Hunghom in 1868. Cosmopolitan Dock was finished at Tai Kok Tsui in 1876. By 1907 the Kowloon Peninsula contained several shipbuilding and repair yards. And in 1910 Butterfield & Swire’s Taikoo Dockyard was completed at Quarry Bay.

Date

1902

Type

Postcard

Files

IMG_4656.jpg

Citation

“Hongkong Kowloon Dock,” Local landscape shown in photos and postcards, accessed March 29, 2024, https://imagesofhongkong.omeka.net/items/show/203.