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Government Dockyard

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Government Dockyard
Traditional Chinese政府船塢
Simplified Chinese政府船坞
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhèngfǔ Chuánwù
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingzing3 fu2 syun4 ou3

Government Dockyard (Chinese: 政府船塢) is a dockyard of Hong Kong Government responsible for the design, procurement and maintenance of all vessels owned by the Government.

The dockyard occupies a site of 98 hectares on the northeast coast of Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong and has an 8.3-hectare protected water basin as an operational base for vessels operated by the Marine Department. The dockyard has a shiplift system and three ship-hoists capable of drydocking vessels of up to 750 tonnes. An on-line computerised information system is employed to co-ordinate the maintenance activities and support services to maximise maintenance efficiency and vessel availability.[1]

The dockyard is adjacent to Stonecutters Island Sewage Treatment Plant is accessible by Ngong Shuen Road.

Former Tenants

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This dockyard was the final Tamar shore station prior to the handover and used briefly by the Royal Navy. The base was closed on April 11, 1997, a few months prior to the handover and centenary of HMS Tamar's arrival to Hong Kong.[2]

The base was used to service 3 of the Peacock class patrol ships:

The ships remained at the decommissioned base before being sold to the Philippine Navy.

Current tenants

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List of government departments with vessels serviced here:

See also

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References

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  1. ^ http://www.gov.hk/en/about/abouthk/factsheets/docs/port.pdf Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "HMS Tamar - Regiment History, War & Military Records & Archives".[permanent dead link]