HONG KONG. Repairing yard. No slips.

Dry docks:-
• Admiralty No. 1, 555 x 95 x 39 feet (Dreadnought.)
• New dock: Quarry Bay, (Butterfield & Swire) 750 x 88 X 34½ feet (Dreadnought.)
• At Kau-Lung (see map): No. 1, 700 x 86 x 30 feet (Dreadnought).
• Hope Dock, 432½ x 84 x 24 feet.
• Cosmopolitan, 466 x 85½ x 20 feet.

Also three smaller, able to take torpedo craft, etc.

N.B.-All the foregoing, except the two first, are the property of the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.
Area of basin (tidal), 94 acres. Average depth of harbour, 40 feet.

Admiralty Charts No. 1180-1459.

Rise of Spring Tide, 8 feet.

WEI-HAI-WEI (CHINA,). Anchorage. Unfortified base. Coaling station.

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