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HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

OFFICES, I, CLUB CHAMBERS, D'AGUILAR STREET,

HONGKONG.

BANKERS:

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

Hon. W. KESWICK, Chairman.

A. McIVER, Esq., Vice-Chairman.

H. HOPPIUS, Esq.

G. B. EMORY, Esq. C. D. BOTTOMLEY, Esq.

D. GILLIES, Esq., Secretary.

THE

HE COMPANY'S DOCKS at ABERDEEN and KOWLOON, and THE PATENT SLIP at Belcher's Bay are in full 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's FOUR GRANITE DOCKS are the largest in China, capable of docking vessels 450 feet in length, and 23 feet draft of water, and they are fitted with every appliance in the way of Caissons, powerful Steam Pumps, &c., to ensure safety and despatch in work.

WORKSHOPS.

The Workshops at Aberdeen, Kowloon and Belcher's Bay possess every appliance necessary for the Repairs of Ships or Steam Machinery. The Engineers' Shops are supplied with Lathes, Planing, Screwing, Cutting, and Punching Machines, &c., &c., capable of executing work on the largest scale, and driven by steam. The Shipwrights' and Blacksmiths' Shops are equally well supplied, and are under the Supervision of experienced Europeans.

A large Saw Mill, fitted with every modern improvement, is now in working order. This New Machinery enables the Company to undertake the building of vessels and execution of all kinds of ships' work at Lower Rates, and with greater despatch than any establishment in the East.

Powerful Lifting Shears at all their Establishments stand on a Jetty, alongside which vessels can lie drawing 24 feet of water, and take in or out boilers, &c.

The Company, in addition to executing Repairs, are prepared to tender for the construction of New Vessels, either in Iron or Wood; and for supplying new Boilers to Steamships, for executing which they have great facilities.

FOUNDRY.

Iron and Brass Castings, either for Ships or general purposes, are executed with the utmost despatch.

STORES.

The Company's large and well selected Stores of Materials necessary for Ship-work will be supplied, when required, at the lowest possible rates.

The Company's Steam Tugs Fame and Pilot Fish are always in readiness to berth Vessels, and Tow them to or from Sea at moderate Charges.

For further particulars, apply to the Ofices of the Company, 1, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong.

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