In order to enable the docks to operate safely at night also as well as at daytime, they were equipped with illuminating and communicating apparatus. Besides, No.3 dock was installed with hot air drying apparatus and FRP staging for cleaning and painting of ship's shell. This paper outlines the schemes and actual datum of the nighter docking apparatus. The items mentioned bellow were specially noted at the beginning of the schemes : (1) Port and harbour regulations have to be observed, as the dockyard is situated in the Kobe harbour. Care must be taken not to obstruct the passage of ships nearby and to avoid blinding the men at the wheel of tugs. (2) As well as ship's docking and undocking works, miscellaneous ship repair works are able to be performed safely, quickly and efficiently.
