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CHAP. II.] SINGAPORE NEW HABBOTJR. Ill
Docks.*—The following are the dimensions of the docks at Singapore :
New Harbour Docks Company in Chermin bay : No. 1 dock, length
444 feet, breadth at entrance 55 feet, depth over sill 19 feet at ordinary
springs ; No. 2 dock, length 416 feet, breadth 42^ feet, depth over sill
14^ feet. Tanjong Pagar Company : Victoria dock ; No. 3, length
450 feet, breadth 65 feet, depth over sill 20 feet ; Albert dock. No. 4,
length 470 feet, breadth 60 feet, depth on sill 21 feet. Bon Accord dock
belonging to the same company, on Ayer Brani island, length 330 feet,
breadth 50 feet, depth over sill 17 feet. There is a jetty for heaving down
vessels on Blakan Mati island, south-eastward of Silugu island. The
large sheers on the Tanjong Pagar Company's sheer wharf will lift 40 tons.
Repairs to bulls and machinery of vessels of the largest class can be effected
by the dock companies ; and barracks have been built at the docks to
accommodate crews of 500 and 250^men.
Supplies.—Every description of supplies are to be obtained. Power-
ful tugs are available when required.
Coal.—Most of the large steamers make use of the extensive wharf
accommodation belonging to the Tanjong Pagar and other companies,
alongside which there is from 25 to 40 feet at low water. Her Majesty's
vessels are coaled at the wharves of the company who may happen to have
the contract, the English naval coal stores on Pulo Ayer Brani are not
now used for that purpose.
Both the Pagar and Borneo Company's wharves are easy to go alongside.
Vessels requiring coal should hoist the Commercial Code rendezvous flag,
at the dip, when a similar flag will be waved from the wharf to which, the
vessel can go alongside. 200 tons an hour can be put on board, if urgently
100 tons an hour can always be depended on.f
The Tanjong Pagar Company lease the Government stores on Ayer
required ;
Brani island, and usually kept there about 2,000 tons of coal, for the
purpose of coaling vessels in Singapore road, by lighters.
North side of New Harbour.—The shore reef which extends
from the north-west limit of the harbour and passes about 50 yards outside
Lot's wife, Blayer point, trends to the northward one cable and about
the same distance to the eastward, forming a small bay nearlv filled with
shoal water, thence to the north-eastward for about 1;| cables to the foot of
mount Chermin, from which the reef curves to the eastward, forming
Chermin bay. On the eastern side of this bay are two of the docks, and
works previously alluded to; the reef thence trends in an E. by S. direction
* Vessels of 5,000 tons burthen have been docked here.
f There are some shoal patches off the Borneo Company's wharf of about 18 or
20 feet, towards its west end, which makes it awkward for vessels of heavy draught to
get alongside.—Navigating Lieutenant H. Koxby, H.M.S. Bacchante, 1882.