CRAIC & DON
OLDEST OF ALL Hong Kong's industries is shipbuilding and repairing. There are two major dockyards, employing between them some 6,000 men and equipped to undertake the building of new vessels up to 500 feet long and 10,000 tons displacement, or the docking of ocean-going ships up to 750 feet. These yards can handle repairs of all kinds to both hulls and machinery and possess cranes capable of lifting up to 150 tons. During recent years there has been a considerable increase in the business handled by smaller Hong Kong yards and vessels for almost every country in the Far East and Australasia are now being built in the Colony. This photograph, taken in one of the larger yards, shows workmen drilling a large plate of sheet steel.
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