Wei Hai Wei station

The Wei Hai Wei (zh-cp|c=威海衛|p=Wēihǎi Wèi) station or Weihaiwei station, and sometimes as Port Edward station during the colonial period was a Royal Navy area of operation for ships assigned to the Far Eastern commands. Its shore establishment was located in the city of the same name located on the north-eastern seashore of Shandong Province in China (coord|37|28|0|N|122|7|0|E|display=inline). It was a summer station for the British naval China Station.Fact|date=August 2008

After Russia leased Port Arthur from China on the opposite coast for 25 years in March, 1898, the United Kingdom obtained a lease which was to run for as long as the Russians stayed in Port Arthur. In 1905, when Japan took over the lease of Port Arthur, the British lease was made to run as long as the Japanese occupied Port Arthur. Thus the city was part of a territory (c.285 sq mi/740 km²) called "Weihaiwei", which was leased by the United Kingdom from 1898 until October 1 1930.

These ships of the Royal Navy in the Far East had two main ports on the Chinese coast; Hong Kong in the south and Wei Hai Wei, an island in the north. Wei Hai Wei was rented from the Chinese government so there were no shore facilities to speak of.

At the beginning of the lease the territory was administered by a Senior Naval Officer of Royal Navy. In 1899, administration transferred to a military and civil commissioner appointed by the War Office in London. The territorial garrison consisted of 200 British troops and a specially constituted Chinese Regiment with British officers. In 1901, it was decided that this base should not be fortified, and administration was transferred to the U.K.'s Colonial Office. A Civil Commissioner was appointed to run the territory in 1902, and the Chinese Regiment was disbanded in 1903.

The last British commissioner of Weihaiwei was Reginald Johnston.

The nickname British sailors gave to this port was "Way High".