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Sheik Ally Gravestone

Submitted by benstables on Sat, 2021-11-20 19:26
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2021

Gravestone of Sheik Ally who was killed by pirates at Hung Hom in 1877

At the Muslim Cemetery in Happy Valley, Hong Kong Island (Section 4)

Inscription:

Sacred to the Memory of Sheik Ally 

Who was born in Bombay in 1837 and killed by pirates at Hung Hom Docks in 1877 aged 40 years

This monument has been erected by his loving daughter Maria Glyceria D. Azevedo

Hai Ching piracy-loanedalbum on display at HK Maritime Museum

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2021-05-19 02:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2010

An album I acquired about 40 years ago is on display at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum open at one of the Hai Ching piracy image pages. Difficult to photograph in its glass case and low lighting.

The whole album is from an HMS KENT China Squadron cruise.

It has been on display ever since the museum opened to the public

Piratical Fishing Junks.jpg

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2019-10-28 03:36
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Presumably taken from HM Submarine L3. From the 1928-1929 album of William Richmond Fell. There may be an account of what happened next in his journals.

Armed junk-Hong Kong-1948

Submitted by IDJ on Sun, 2015-01-18 00:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1948

Back in the early 1970s one of our hiking companions told tales of his activities gun running and moving strategic goods up to Canton at night on armed Junks just after the war. At the time I never really believed him as he didn't seem the type who would get involved in such things. More recently I came across a number of pictures dated circa 1948 in the Harrison Forman Collection often mentioned on this site, of Junks armed with vintage cannons, guns and armour plating around the decks moored in Hong Kong. Supposedly blockade runners.

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