A dockyard is building here, but its resources are nil as yet.
XI
NAVAL HARBOURS
Nagasaki
Nagasaki is not a dockyard town, though it is generally supposed to be outside Japan, on account of its being a naval harbour.
It is the oldest port in Japan, its history dating from the Dutch trading days. It contains two docks, as follows:—
| 1. Tategami. | ||
| Feet. | ||
| Length on blocks | 510 | |
| Extreme length | 530 | |
| Breadth | 99 | |
| Depth (maximum) | 27½ | |
| 2. Mukaijima. | ||
| Length on blocks | 360 | |
| Extreme length | 371 | |
| Breadth | 53 | |
| Depth (maximum) | 24½ | |
There is also a patent slip, of which the rails are 750 ft. long, the breadth 30 ft., and the lifting power in tons 1200.
It has already been mentioned that Nagasaki was an old Dutch station; but the present Tategami yard was established about the time of the Crimean War, by the Tokugawa Government, with the assistance of Dutch engineers. After the civil war it was taken over by the Imperial Government, who in 1884 sold it to the Mitsu Bishi Company, to which it now belongs.