Waglan Island is a member of the Po Toi group of islands in Hong Kong. It hosts a ground of meteorological observation and recording.
SS British Chivalry was a British oil tanker sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean in 1944.
Type C2 ships were designed by the United States Maritime Commission (MARCOM) in 1937–38. They were all-purpose cargo ships with five holds,and U.S. shipyards built 328 of them from 1939 to 1945. Compared to ships built before 1939,the C2s were remarkable for their speed and fuel economy. Their design speed was 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h),but some could make 19 knots (35 km/h) on occasion. The first C2s were 459 feet (140 m) long,63 feet (19 m) broad,and 40 feet (12 m) deep,with a 25-foot (8 m) draft. Later ships varied somewhat in size. Some,intended for specific trade routes,were built with significant modifications in length and capacity.
Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock was a Hong Kong dockyard,once among the largest in Asia.
The SS City of Rio de Janeiro was an iron-hulled steam-powered passenger ship,launched in 1878,which sailed between San Francisco and various Asian Pacific ports. On 22 February 1901,the vessel sank after striking a submerged reef at the entry to San Francisco Bay while inward bound from Hong Kong. Of the approximately 220 passengers and crew on board,fewer than 85 people survived the sinking,while 135 others were killed in the catastrophe. The wreck lies in 287 feet (87 m) of water just off the Golden Gate and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as nationally significant.
Stella was a passenger ferry in service with the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) that was wrecked on 30 March 1899 off the Casquets during a crossing from Southampton,to Guernsey.
SS Hong Moh was a passenger ship that was wrecked on the White Rocks off Lamock Island,Swatow,on 3 March 1921 with the loss of about 900 lives.
The SS Bokhara was a P&O steamship which sank in a typhoon on 10 October 1892,off the coast of Sand Island in the Pescadores,Formosa. Of the 150 people who perished,eleven were members of the Hong Kong cricket team.
The Irene incident of 1927 was a significant event of the British anti-piracy operations in China during the first half of the 20th century. In an attempt to surprise the pirates of Bias Bay,about sixty miles from Hong Kong,Royal Navy submarines attacked the merchant ship SS Irene,of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company,which had been taken over by the pirates on the night of 19 October. The British were successful in thwarting the hijacking though they sank the ship.
SS Catterthun was a nineteenth-century cargo and passenger ship. It sank with considerable loss of life on the east coast of Australia in 1895.
SS Canadian was a British passenger ship which struck an iceberg and sank in the Strait of Belle Isle 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) north of Cape Bauld while she was travelling from Quebec,Canada to Liverpool,United Kingdom.
The SS Clarksdale Victory was the 80th Victory ship built during World War II. She was launched by the California Shipbuilding Company on January 27,1945,and completed on February 26,1945. The ship’s United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3,hull number 80. She was built in just 86 days under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. SS Clarksdale Victory served in the Pacific Ocean during WW2. SS Clarksdale Victory was 80th of the new 10,500-ton class ship known as Victory ships. Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. Liberty ships were designed to be used just for WW2. Victory ships were designed to last longer and serve the US Navy after the war. The Victory ship differed from a Liberty ship in that they were:faster,longer and wider,taller,a thinner stack set farther toward the superstructure and had a long raised forecastle.
SS Dunearn was a British steel screw steamer of 2300 tons. On 26 August 1908,while sailing through the Korea Strait near the GotōIslands during a typhoon,the ship sank with a loss of 51 of 53 crew members. The two survivors were rescued by the Japanese steamer Sakyo Maru. The Captain commanding the ship on her last voyage was Captain J. Graham. The two survivors were William Phillips,an engineer,and John Landon,a seaman.
SS Fatshan was a passenger ferry steamer which sank in stormy seas off Lantau Island during Typhoon Rose resulting in the loss of 88 lives.
The Douglas Steamship Company was a British merchant shipping and maritime trading company founded in 1883 in the Crown colony of Hong Kong by John Steward Lapraik and dissolved in 1987.
SS Equipoise was a Panamanian Cargo ship that was torpedoed by the German submarine U-160 in the Atlantic Ocean 60 nautical miles (110 km) south east of Cape Henry,Virginia,United States on 27 March 1942.
SS Arcata,was built in 1919 as the SS Glymont for the United States Shipping Board as a merchant ship by the Albina Engine &Machine Works in Portland,Oregon. The 2,722-ton cargo ship Glymont was operated by the Matson Navigation till 1923 in post World War I work. In 1923 she was sold to Cook C. W. of San Francisco. In 1925 she was sold to Nelson Charles Company of San Francisco. In 1937 she was sold to Hammond Lumber Company of Fairhaven,California. For World War II,in 1941,she was converted to an US Army Troopship,USAT Arcata. She took supplies and troops to Guam. On July 14,1942,she was attacked by Japanese submarine I-7 and sank. She was operating as a coastal resupply in the Gulf of Alaska,south of the Aleutian Islands at,approximately 165 nautical miles southeast of Sand Point,when she sank. She as returning after taking supplies to Army troop fighting in the Aleutian Islands campaign.
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