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HONG KONG CENTENARY NUMBER

CHINA MAIL, PAGE 45

1841

-1941

CENTENARY OF HONG KONG

HONG KONG &

& WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

BEFORE 1841 MUD DOCKS AT WHAMPOA

1845

MR. JOHN C. COUPER, MASTER SHIPWRIGHT OF ABERDEEN ARRIVED AT WHAMPOA ON BEHALF OF PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL COMPANY AND COMMENCED LARGE IMPROVE-

MENTS.

1848 COUPER TOOK CHARGE OF DOCKS AT WHAMPOA.

1850 COUPER LEASED DOCKS FROM CHINESE.

1856

ARROW AFFAIR AT CANTON. COUPER'S FATHER TAKEN BY CHINESE AND NEVER FOUND AGAIN. DOCKS DAMAGED AND WHEN PEACE RESTORED COUPER COMPEN-

SATED.

1857 CAPTAIN JOHN LAMONT WHO HAD CONDUCTED A SHIPYARD AT EAST POINT SINCE 1841

STARTED CONSTRUCTING LAMONT DRY DOCK AT ABERDEEN.

1860

1863

FIRST SHIP DOCKED IN LAMONT DOCK.

GROUP OF HONG KONG BUSINESS MEN HEADED BY MR. DOUGLAS LAPRAIK BOUGHT COUPER'S INTERESTS AT WHAMPOA. GROUP STYLED THEMSELVES

HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY.

1866

1864 DOCK COMPANY BOUGHT CAPTAIN LAMONT'S INTERESTS AT ABERDEEN DOCKS.

1865 UNION DOCKS STARTED AT HUNG HOM.

HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., INCORPORATED AND BECAME A LIMITED LIABIL-

ITY COMPANY.

1870 UNION DOCK CO., AMALGAMATED WITH HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., 1877 PROPERTY AT WHAMPOA SOLD TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT,

LTD.

1879

1880

CAPTAIN SAND'S SLIPS AT WEST POINT PURCHASED AND RELAID AT KOWLOON. COSMOPOLITAN DOCK PURCHASED FROM CAPTAIN SPRAT AND HIS PARTNERS.

...

1941 FROM PRIMITIVE YARDS BUILDING & REPAIRING SMALL WOODEN SAILING VESSELS HAS GROWN THE LARGE AND UP-TO-DATE CONCERN WITH ITS MAIN ESTABLISHMENT KNOWN AS KOWLOON DOCKS,