We find it recorded that Capt: Sanda' slipway launched the Customs cruiser "Li Chi" in March, 1878; but a new enterprise at Spring Gardens (W.B. Spratt & Co.) had obtained a big order about the same time, and launched the steamship "Kiungchow" in July that same year.
Sands launched the s.s. "Zephyr" in November, 1878, but this was his final effort; he died not long afterwards, and in September, 1879, his slips (which had been purchased by the H.K. and Whampoa Dock Co. in August, 1877) were moved over to Kowloon.
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The big Cosmopolitan Dock Co. was still holding out, and in February, 1880, this concern commenced a further enterprise, opening a new dock at Shamshuipo as a rival to the Kowloon concern - but the H.K. and Whampoa Dock Co. bought these Docks at the close of 1880, and the amalgamation was practically complete.
In a concluding article some interesting extracts from contemporary reports on the Union Dock and the Aberdeen dockyard extension, will be given.