shipyard; dockyard 船塢
shipyard; dockyard
繁:船塢
简:船坞
1863年,香港怡和洋行等公司在紅磡灣一帶創辦了船塢,並收購了位於廣州黃埔的船塢,仍以「黃埔」(Whampoa)命名。
【普通話與世界】港穗黃埔不同名 全因英譯無系統(2017年5月16日)。香港文匯報,取自 http://paper.wenweipo.com/2017/05/16/ED1705160011.htm
Names connected with shipyards – such as Sands, Fenwick and Ship streets – indicate there were once shipyards on the waterfronts of Kennedy Town and Wan Chai.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock gave rise to Dock Street, and Gillies Avenue was named for David Gillies, general manager of the dockyard.
Davies, S. (2016, September 22). What street names say about Hong Kong’s maritime past. South China Morning Post. Retrieved from http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2021304/what-street-names-say-about-hong-kongs-maritime