Articles tagged "drydock"

I am trying to determine the drydock that held the American freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams just before the Japanese invasion in December 1941.  I know the ship was 324 feet long and that it was drydocked in Kowloon.  I assume this means the HK & Whampoa dockyard, but maybe the Cosmopolitan dockyard had a drydock large enough to take the Admiral Williams?  Does anyone know which drydocks in Kowloon could hold a ship of this size?  <Read more ...>