early shipping in Hong Kong
HF: From 1757 up to the outbreak of the Opium War, Guangzhou was China’s only trading port.
Late 19th century photograph of the crowded harbour in Guangzhou, China. Source; Alamy
After 1841, Hong Kong’s first dockyard was located in East Point, Causeway Bay. In 1857, the Scottish entrepreneur John Lamont built the Lamont Dock in Aberdeen.
John Lamont’s Dock in 1857. Source: HK Museum of History