274 x 211 mm. A view looking down onto the Victoria Dock which contains an American-built barque and a steamer, with a large group of the workforce watching the photographer from the dockside. Established in 1863 to cope with increasing congestion in the New Harbour, by 1866 a 750 ft wharf had been built and two years later the graving dock, named after Queen Victoria, was opened. A second graving dock, the Albert Dock, followed in 1879. A period of recession was ended by the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and thereafter the Tanjong Pagar Docks occupied a monopolistic position: in 1885 it took over the Borneo Company wharf and fourteen years later in 1899 bought out the New Harbour Dock Company. It was expropriated by the government in 1905.