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I found this album in the University of Michigan Archives, said to be the last album William Pryor Floyd created in Hong Kong before he left. The views are all of the aftermath of the Typhoon of 23rd September 12874. <Read more ...>
I've been looking through the old newspapers until 1940 for mentions of Dragon Boat, to see where the races used to be held .
During the 19th Century, mentions in the papers refer to the races held in Canton rather than any in Hong Kong. In Canton each year, several rowers would drown, and there were often brawls between teams that would end in several more deaths.
From the 1900s, the races at Aberdeen start to get covered by Hong Kong's papers. <Read more ...>
HMS L4 was built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 21 June 1916 and was commissioned on 26 December 1918. She sailed with the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Ambrose (1903) to Hong Kong in 1919 as part of the 4th Submarine Flotilla, arriving there in January 1920. On 20 October 1927 off Hong Kong, L4 and HMS L5 rescued crew of the merchant ship SS Irene from a pirate attack after firing her deck gun. HMS L4 was sold on 24 February 1934 and then broken up in Charlestown, Fife.
In 1979 more than 60,000 Vietnamese refugees arrived at Hong Kong's sea boundary. In a talk with Annemarie Evans on RTHK's Hong Kong Heritage, I describe what it was like as a frontline Marine Police officer tasked to deal with the influx. The programme link is here: <Read more ...>
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.
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Thanks to Bill and Kathy who've added several more months of W J Carrie's wartime diary to the Gwulo website. If you can help add more, please send me an email (david@gwulo.com). I'll reply with the text and instructions - it'll take around 30 minutes of your time to copy & paste them online.
If you enjoyed last week's newsletter about the Navy's dry dock, Stephen's comments add several corrections and lots more information about the scene.
HMS Titania was a submarine depot ship, often seen in Hong Kong during 1919-1929, when she was part of the 4th Submarine Flotilla. The flotilla also included a second depot ship, HMS Ambrose, and 13 L-class submarines: L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L9, L15, L19, L20 and L33.
