ADVERTISEMENT
HONGKONG & WHAMPOA
DOCK COMPANY,
LIMITED.
OFFICE: QUEEN'S BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.
THE COMPANY'S DOCKS at KOWLOON, TAL-KOK-TSUI and ABERDEEN are in efficient working order, and the attention of Captains and Shipowners is respectfully solicited to the advantages which these Establishments offer for Docking and Repairing Vessels.
The Company has SIX GRANITE DOCKS and TWO PATENT SLIPS of the following dimensions :—
NAME OF Dock or Slip.
LESOTH
ON
KEEL BLOCKA.
BREADTH
AT ENTRANCE.
DEPTH OVER SILL AT ORDINARY SPRING TIDES,
RISE OF TIDE,
SPRINGS.
NEAPS.
KOWLOON.
Feet.
Feet.
Feel.
Feet.
Feet.
So. 1 Dork, Kowloon
576
86 feet top
30*
70 ft. bottom
No. 2 Dock, Kowloon
371
74'
18'
6"
So. 3 Dork, Kowloon
264
49' 3#
14'
Patent Slip, No. 1, Kowloon.
240
(0*
14'
7
Patent Slip, No. 2, Kowloon.
220
60'
12
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6"
0"
TH
TAI-KOK-TSUI,
Josmopolitan Dock
466
85'
6"
20'
ABERDEEN.
Hope Dock
amont Pock
430
81
333
64'
23' 18'
i.
i-i-
6"
64
The DOCKS are fitted with every appliance in the way of Caissons, powerful centrifugal Steam Pum ps, &c., which enable them to be pumped out in three hours.
WORKSHOPS. - The extensive workshops on the premises at Kowloon, Cosmopolitan, and Aberdeen Docks ossess every facility and appliance necessary for the repairs of ships and steam machinery. The Engineers' Shops re supplied with a large plant of the latest types of tools in the way of Lathes, Planing, Milling and Serewing fachines, Electric Cranes, &c., &c., and capable of excenting the largest class of work with despatch. The Ship- #rights' Department has attached to it a Steam-Sawmill with Circular, Vertical and Band Saws, and also ‘a omplete plant of Wood-Working Machinery of the most modern and improved type. The Blacksmiths' Shops re equally well furnished with a complete supply of powerful Steam-Hammers, Cranes, &c., capable of forging tern posts and crank and straight shafting of the largest size.
Powerful Lifting Shears with steam purchase at two of their Establishments stand on a solid granite seawall longside which vessels can lie drawing 24 feet of water, and take in or out boilers, &c. The Shears at Kowloon are apable of lifting 70 tons.
The Company is prepared to tender for the construction of new vessels, either in Steel, Fron or Wood, also to xecute all kind of ships" work at lower rates and with greater despatch than any establishment in the East, nd every department in the three establishments of the Company is under the careful supervision of experienced Juropean foremen.
BOILER-MAKER'S DEPARTMENT.-The Company, in addition to executing repairs, is prepared to tender for ew boilers to steamships, for the construction of which it possesses special facilities, including powerful punching nd shearing machines, hydraulic rivetters, &c.
FOUNDRY. --The Foundry is fitted with a large powerful Steam Crane and the Cupolas are capable of casting p to 100 tons. The Company is prepared to supply the very best Iron and Brass Castings of all descriptions upon he shortest notice.
GALVANIZING PLANT of the most modern type by electrical deposit has been put up at the Kowloon 'stablishment, which is capable of doing the largest class of work.
STORES. --The Company's Godowns contain large and well selected stocks of all material and fittings requisite 1 shipbuilding, engine room outfits, furnishings, and ships' stores of all descriptions supplied at tariff rates,
For Further Particulars, apply at the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, No. 1, New Praya, Hongkong.
W. B. DIXON,
Chief Manager,