Bailey’s Shipyard – adverts
“This well-known firm of engineers and shipbuilders was founded in 1897 by Mr. W.S. Bailey, who began business as a consulting engineer and importer of steam pumps and engineers’ requisites. In 1900 Mr. Bailey was joined in partnership by Mr. E. O. Murphy, and the present works [1905] at Kowloon Bay were established…”(1)
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China Mail Advert 14th April 1908
Chinese Navy Gunboat Kien Yu
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SCMP advert 11th Feb 1932
Forced Draft Oil Fired Ferry Boat Bataan
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SCMP Advert 8th Dec 1932
Oil Fired Cargo Vessel Lutong
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SCMP advert 5th Jan 1933
Revenue Launch Kwong Lee
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SCMP advert 29th June 1933
SS Hai Ning
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SCMP Advert 20th July 1933
This article was first posted on 6th March 2017.
Sources:
- Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai and other Treaty Ports of China, ed A Wright, 1908.
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