Talk:Star Ferry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is part of WikiProject Hong Kong, a project to coordinate efforts in improving all Hong Kong-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other Hong Kong-related articles, you are invited to join this project! | |
| ??? | This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. | |
|
Hong Kong To-do:
Project Maintenance
|
||
Contents |
[edit] Star ferries of Hongkong
Star ferries in Hongkong were not built by the Wharf Company. They were built and maintained at Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company located in Hung Hom Bay (Hung Hom Village) in Kowloon. The Star Ferry Co may have been owned and operated by the Honkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company but they were built by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company in Hunghom (commonly known as Kowloon Docks) -- Wmccall 05:44, 20 March 2006
- I have removed the following sentence:
- The ferries were built in the 1950s by The Wharf dockyard, and the company is still owned by The Wharf today, although they have since redeveloped their dockyards.
- as it conflicts with the statement above, and my (perhaps faulty) recollection is that Kowloon Docks belonged to the Hutcheson Whampoa group when I worked for that group in the late 1980s. -- Chris j wood 11:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Tourist cruise started in 2003?
The article contains the following assertion:
- In 2003, the Star Ferry began a tourist cruise, making an indirect, circular route to all the stops.
which I find rather strange. I recall taking such a Star Ferry cruise when I lived in Hong Kong, and I left in 1989. I've also seen such cruises running when I've returned for visits, most recently in 2000. So if they did indeed start in 2003, it could only have been after a short hiatus. Anybody know better?. -- Chris j wood 11:34, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- As nobody else has contributed to this query in the last 8 months, I've backed out the assertion that the tour started in 2003, and replaced it with a brief description of the tour under 'routes'. -- Chris j wood 12:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fleet
This section starts:
- There are currently 8 ships in the Star fleet with average age of the fleet at 44 years:
and then follows this up with a table enumerating 15 vessels. Of these, one is marked as retired, one as rental ceased, one as used on the harbour tour and one as a tug. Depending on how you count the tug and the harbour tour vessel, the table implies an operational fleet of 11 to 13 vessels. So where does the 8 come from?. -- Chris j wood 12:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Central Pier
I have made some major rephrasing concerning the controversy of the fourth generation Star Ferry pier at Central. The old version mixed fact with personal opinions which is absolutely not a wikipedian thing. I have restructured the section, separating facts from public criticism (which is now under the subheadline "Controversy"). I hope this new version is better. sctonyling 12:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
I though that the content about the 3rd and 4th generation Central piers did not fit so well within the Star Ferry article, and have moved it to Star Ferry Pier. There, the content has been referenced and updated for the protests. Ohconfucius 06:48, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
