Taikoo Dock Traditional Cache
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Beginning in Colonial Hong Kong, Whampoa Dockyard Company and "Taikoo Dockyard Engineering Company" were crucial for the economy. The dockyard was founded by Butterfield and Swire around 1902 to 1905. Together with the United Kingdom, these 2 docks in Hong Kong would build the largest ships in the world during that period of time. Simultaneously, China had multiple dockyards such as Shanghai Dock & Engineering Company in 1906, Tung Hwa Shipbuilding Works in 1910 and the Shanghai Dockyards Ltd in 1937. Though Hong Kong's dockyards always gave the British complete freedom in ship construction.
By 1972, Taikoo had also closed down its refinery, to concentrate on sugar products and packaging and in the mid-1970s, a newly formed development and management company, Swire Properties, began to create a new urban landscape from the vast acreage jointly released by the dockyard and refinery in Hong Kong's Island East area. Hong Kong's first private residential estate, Taikoo Shing and the retail/office complex Cityplaza (its underground car park formed from the old Taikoo graving dock), were the first of a number of prestigious commercial projects developed and managed by Swire Properties
The dockyard operation later merged with Whampoa Dockyard of Hutchison Whampoa to form a Hong Kong United Dockyard at the west coast of Tsing Yi Island.
Initial item: A small greeting clip and a log book
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Additional Hints
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