Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1937
This outline should be of the beached vessel. These ships operated in the "Canton" Delta in 1937. Image from a book titled 'The Chinese Steam Navy'. <Read more ...>
Famously attacked by the PLA in 1949 while on the Yangtze, before being captured. As wikipedia has it: On 30 July 1949 Amethyst slipped her chain and headed downriver in the dark, beginning a 104-mile (167 km) dash for freedom running the gauntlet of Communist guns on both banks of the river. She followed the merchant ship Kiang Ling Liberation, which showed the way through the shoals and distracted the PLA. At 0500 hours on 31 July, Amethyst approached the PLA forts at Par Shan (Baoshan) and Woosung (Wusong) with their searchlights sweeping the river. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1920
This SCMP newsprint column tag 'Mammoth Ship' in the 29 April 1920 edition attracted my attention, but more interesting is that it was carrying 7,000 Czech troops when moored off Holt's Wharf. As a mid-European country with no obvious interest in the Far East what were they doing in the area? Shanghai interventions perhaps?
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1890
Kowloon Praya, Picture taken by a German, year unknown, on reverse written by hand: "Koflung b. Honkong" (in German) - i.e. "Kowloon near Hong Kong" <Read more ...>
