At this period it became necessary to dock the ship, and as the Chinese engineers were determined to complete her renovation themselves, they decided to construct a dock—there being no Chinese-owned dry-dock in Shanghai—rather than place the work in the hands of one of the foreign dock companies for completion.
Accordingly, a mud dock was constructed alongside the Ping An Steamship Co.'s premises near the Arsenal, and the entrance to the dock was closed up by a cofferdam. The cofferdam was removed when the ship was docked, and _afterwards replaced, several weeks being occupied in this operation. The water was then pumped from the dock and repairs to the bottom of the ship proceeded.
Whilst these were in Progress, attention was given to the dock entrance, and a complete and efficient caisson built inside the cofferdam, the latter being finally removed as soon as the caisson was finished. Its removal was a long and tedious undertaking, owing to the length of time it had remained undisturbed, The transformed Teresa, now "almost as good as new" was then brought out and quickly put into commission once more after having been nearly two years under repairs, and rescued from a state which no foreigner would have considered likely to yield the smallest return for a considerable expendi ture of time and money.
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