Fenwick Pier, former pier in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Fenwick Pier is a former pier at 1 Lung King Street in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, now landlocked after reclamation. Its single-storey white building with a flat roof and dark grey lower band carries a sign reading "SERVICEMEN'S GUIDES" above an open entrance, with three red-brown framed windows and a red-panelled door to the right.
The pier was built in the postwar decades, at a time when Wan Chai was shifting from a residential and military area into a dense urban center. Land reclamation work along this stretch of the harbor gradually pushed the waterfront outward, changing where the pier sits relative to the original shoreline.
The name comes from George Fenwick, who opened the Fenwick & Co. shipyard in 1887; the pier moved with the shoreline from Johnston Road to Gloucester Road and finally to Lung King Street. Volunteers from the American Women's Association of Hong Kong helped the Servicemen's Guides Association give arriving sailors local information. The ground-floor Ship Liaison Group handled contacts between navies, the pier, the public and journalists.
Fenwick Pier closed for good on 11 February 2022, so there is no boat service to plan around; the site at 1 Lung King Street is to be occupied by a relocated fire station. The building stood landlocked after reclamation from 2016, cut off from the water. Visitors can still walk past the address in Wan Chai North, near the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the Convention Centre.
The Fleet Arcade opened in 1994 with a post office and a library for sailors, stocked with donated books; both later closed. At its peak the pier received over 50,000 naval personnel at one time, and in its last years it handled only a handful of vessels annually.
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