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<p>−<a href="/wiki/Category:Buildings_and_structures_in_Mumbai" title="Category:Buildings and structures in Mumbai">Category:Buildings and structures in Mumbai</a>; −<a href="/wiki/Category:Transport_in_Mumbai" title="Category:Transport in Mumbai">Category:Transport in Mumbai</a>; ±<a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Docks_(maritime)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Docks (maritime) (page does not exist)">Category:Docks (maritime)</a>→<a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Mumbai_docks&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Mumbai docks (page does not exist)">Category:Mumbai docks</a> using <a href="https://en.bharatpedia.org/wiki/BP:HC" class="extiw" title="wp:HC">HotCatm</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}<br /> {{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}<br /> [[File:Dry dock at Princess Dock.jpg|thumb|The Dry Dock at Princess Docks]]<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Princess&#039;&#039;&#039; (Prince&#039;s) Dock was built in 1885 in [[Bombay]] as part of the scheme for improving the whole foreshore of the [[Bombay Harbour]]. The actual name of the place is Prince&#039;s Dock that has been corrupted over the years to Princess Dock.&lt;ref&gt;{{cite book|last1=Keane|first1=Augustus Henry|title=Asia, with Ethnological Appendix|date=1886|publisher=Edward Stanford|location=London|pages=[https://archive.org/details/asiawithethnolog00kean/page/325 325]|edition=First|url=https://archive.org/details/asiawithethnolog00kean|quote=princes dock mumbai.|accessdate=29 July 2017}}&lt;/ref&gt; Its cost was approximated at a million sterlings. The [[Elephanta Island]]s can be seen three or four miles off this dock eastwards.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> *{{cite news<br /> |url=http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=935<br /> |title=The Harbour That Gave the Name &#039;Bombay&#039; to Mumbai<br /> |author=Eugene D’Souza<br /> |accessdate=2008-11-11<br /> |date=2008-08-05<br /> |publisher=[[Daiji World|Daijiworld Media Pvt Ltd Mangalore]]}}<br /> *[https://books.google.com/books?id=PzICh1KjvxkC&amp;pg=PA88&amp;dq=Princess+Dock+Bombay&amp;lr= Across India: Or, Live Boys in the Far East By Oliver Optic, p. 88]<br /> *[https://books.google.com/books?id=5T4HWv7otosC&amp;pg=PA9&amp;dq=Princess+Dock+Bombay&amp;lr= Of Development Amidst Fragility By Ritu Dewan, Michelle Chawla, p. 9]<br /> <br /> {{coord missing|Maharashtra}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Mumbai docks]]</div>

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