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taikoo dockyard wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 ships built 3 see also 4 references 5 external links toggle the table of contents taikoo dockyard 3 languages français 粵語 中文 edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide coordinates 22 17 10 n 114 13 01 e 22 286 n 114 217 e 22 286 114 217 from wikipedia the free encyclopedia 22 17 10 n 114 13 01 e 22 286 n 114 217 e 22 286 114 217 a map in 1900s showing taikoo dockyard taikoo dockyard and engineering company chinese 太古船塢 jyutping taai3 gu2 syun4 ou3 was a dockyard in what is now taikoo shing mtr tai koo station and part of taikoo place of quarry bay on the hong kong island in hong kong it predates the era before the reclamation of victoria harbour history edit the foundation stone of taikoo dockyard in what is now taikoo shing taikoo dockyard built the river steamship ss whang pu for china navigation co in 1920 the idea that john swire and sons should have their own dockyard in hong kong to service repair adapt and build vessels for the china navigation company was first put forward when the sugar refinery was established at quarry bay and surplus land remained on that site the suggestion was made several times in the late 19th century but was opposed by john samuel swire as uneconomic and too far outside their usual interests the need however for adequate reliable and easily available overhaul facilities in the east increased and the dockyard was eventually begun in 1900 01 at quarry bay 1 it was registered in britain with john swire sons appointed as london managers butterfield swire eastern managers and scotts shipbuilding and engineering company as expert advisers the first ship for cnco was built by 1910 but it was 16 years before there was a profit on the working account and 20 before a dividend was declared the dockyard s chief competitor was the hong kong and whampoa dock company from whom the new firm faced considerable hostility for many years until a working agreement was reached between them in 1913 beginning in colonial hong kong whampoa dockyard company and taikoo dockyard and engineering company were crucial for the economy together with the united kingdom these two docks in hong kong built the largest ships in the world in that era 2 simultaneously china had multiple dockyards such as shanghai dock and engineering company in 1906 tung hwa shipbuilding works in 1910 and the shanghai dockyards ltd in 1937 2 though hong kong s dockyards always gave the british complete freedom in ship construction in the 1930s shanghai experienced difficult times through events such as the battle of shanghai in the second sino japanese war hong kong s taikoo dockyard continued its own government training schools which were later superseded by hong kong s technical college by the second world war other countries finally began building larger ships than hong kong 2 in 1940 the british company went into voluntary liquidation so that a new one could be opened and registered in hong kong and the dockyard continued to expand after the second world war despite the destruction caused by the japanese in their occupation in 1942 45 the swire group subsequently decided to use the land to develop a large private housing estate taikoo shing closing in the early 1970s 3 the operation later merged with whampoa dockyard of hutchison whampoa to form a hong kong united dockyard at the west coast of tsing yi island on the western shore of new territories ships built edit taikoo dockyard built the coastal steamship ss shuntien for china navigation co in 1934 wuchang 1914 for the china navigation co coal fired passenger ship on the yangtze converted as submarine depot ship hms wuchang and in 1942 used as for the evacuation of singapore autolycus 1917 for the ocean steam ship company steamer 5 806 tons was the largest vessel built in a british territory outside the united kingdom at the time 4 whang pu 1920 for the china navigation co converted as a submarine depot ship and then in 1943 by the royal australian navy as a mobile repair ship returned to royal navy in 1946 and returned to cnc in hong kong and broken up in 1949 anhui 1924 for the china navigation company 4 taishan 1925 for jardine matheson co wusueh 1931 for the china navigation co fatshan 1933 for the china navigation company later captured by the imperial japanese army in service as koto maru before its return to c n c after wwii sold several times between hong kong companies before acquisition by tai tak hing shipping company sunk with loss of 88 lives during typhoon rose in 1971 shuntien 1934 for the china navigation co 3 059 grt passenger and cargo liner sunk by u 559 near tobruk in 1941 breconshire 1939 for the glen line 10 000 ton passenger cargo liner and largest ship built to date by any hong kong dockyard 4 poyang 1941 for the china navigation co converted as an armament stores issuing ship by the royal australian navy returned to cnc in hong kong and broken up in 1970 see also edit the hongs hongkong united dockyards cosmopolitan dock references edit the archives of john swire sons including papers of the taikoo dockyard and engineering company are held at the school of oriental and african studies in london http www soas ac uk library archives 1 2 3 allen g c donnithorne audrey g 2003 western enterprise in far eastern economic development london routledge isbn 0 415 31295 7 jones geoffrey 2000 merchants to multinationals british trading companies in the 19th and 20th centuries oxford oxford university press p not cited isbn 0 19 829450 6 1 2 3 a brief history of the hong kong dockyards mardep gov hk hong kong marine department 2019 archived from the original on 3 december 2024 retrieved 20 august 2019 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to taikoo dockyard wildy merv 14 july 2003 allied chinese ships wwii archived from the original on 28 october 2003 retrieved 24 october 2010 wikiswire website retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title taikoo_dockyard oldid 1301804557 categories quarry bay dockyards in hong kong former buildings and structures in hong kong ships built in hong kong hidden categories pages using gadget wikiminiatlas coordinates on wikidata articles containing traditional chinese language text commons category link is on 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