After Great Britain took Singapore as a colony, what did they do, the advantages and disadvantages

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that I saw on the Internet, Singapore has always been a docking station and maintenance place for British ships during the British colonial period.

Singapore was under British rule from 1819 to 1942:

Singapore, Malacca and Penang were three British colonies on the Malay Peninsula, becoming the Straits Settlements in 1826 , came under the jurisdiction of the British Indian authorities. By 1832, Singapore became the colony's seat of government. On April 1, 1867, the Straits Settlements officially became a British Crown Colony, under the direct jurisdiction of the Colonial Office in London.

With the development of steamships in the mid-1860s and the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, Singapore became an important port of call for ships sailing between East Asia and Europe. Around the 1870s, with the development of the local rubber planting industry, Singapore also became a major rubber export and processing base in the world. By the end of the 19th century, Singapore enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, with local trade increasing eightfold between 1873 and 1913. Economic development has also attracted immigrants within the region. By 1860, the population had grown to 80,792, of which Chinese accounted for 61.9%, Malays and Indians accounted for 13.5% and 16.05% respectively, and other races, including Europeans, accounted for 8.5%.

The colonial government took many measures to solve Singapore's increasingly serious social problems. The government appointed William Pilgrim as the Chinese Protectorate in 1877 to look after the needs of the Chinese community in Singapore, especially controlling the illegal trade in coolies (commonly known as piglets) and preventing women from becoming prostitutes. In 1889 Governor Smith banned all private parties. Despite this, many social problems, such as housing shortages and poor sanitation, remained unresolved until World War II. In 1906, the Tongmenghui led by Sun Yat-sen established the Nanyang Branch in Singapore. Overseas Chinese in Nanyang enthusiastically donated money to indirectly support the association's revolutionary activities.

Singapore was not greatly affected by the First World War. The only incident was the Sepoy Rebellion in 1915. After the Indian Muslim soldiers stationed in Singapore heard that they would be sent to attack the Ottoman Empire, they killed all the British officers in the barracks and prepared for an uprising. The colonial government brought in troops from Burma and Johor to suppress the uprising. After World War I, Britain spent 500 million to build a naval base in Singapore. The naval base houses the largest dockyard in the world and stores enough oil to support the entire British Empire's navy for six months. Later, the government built an air force base to help protect the naval base. Prime Minister Winston Churchill called Singapore the "Gibraltar of the East". Unfortunately, this naval base does not have any warships. The British strategy is to station the entire Royal Navy in Europe and sail to Singapore only when needed.