Green Island typhoon victims

I was a marine police  Assistant Divisional Commander at sea on a patrol vessel in Mirs Bay as the typhoon approached. After patrolling the bay to warn shipping, we secured to typhoon moorings off Tolo Channel. At its height, Typhoon Ellen was frightening, I've seen nothing like it before or since. We rode the moorings with engines full ahead into the wind, and there was a total white out due to spindrift from the surface of the sea. Tolo Channel was at that time used to lay up merchant ships at anchor,  and a number of these vessels were driven ashore, almost on to the KCR railway line. Ellen, in particular the enquiry into the loss of OSPREY,  was the catalyst for the commissioning of Hong Kong's very well -equipped and run Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, the first such facility in Asia.  The HK MRCC has since helped to save very many lives, both within HK waters, and much further afield. 

Yes it was. I don't think the precise cause, or position, of the loss was ascertained.  

Osprey was also used in 1983 for Jackie Chan's "Project A" - a film set in early HK and featuring the Marine Police chasing pirates. It couldn't have been long after when it was lost.