Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1920
Extract from a 1920s map of Kowloon (source gwulo) indicating the location of the shipbuilding and engineering premises of W. S. Bailey & Co. in To Kwan Wan, Kowloon. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1922
Launched on 29th July 1922 at the Taikoo Dockyard, the S.S. “Rhexenor” commissioned for the Blue Funnel Line, was a freighter of about 8000 gross tonnage, being 477.5 ft in length<Read more ...>
Launched on 29th July 1922 at the Taikoo Dockyard, the S.S. “Rhexenor” commissioned for the Blue Funnel Line, was a freighter of about 8000 gross tonnage, being 477.5 ft in length<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1911
This sketch map was published in Paper No.3861, published in the 1911 'Minurtes of Proceedigs' of the Institution of Civil Engineers .
Note the network of railway tracks within the yard, which served all the facilities including a building (top right) marked as "STORES" with 2 branches of railway track entering this facility. <Read more ...>
