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.
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). She was built in Glasgow in 1890,and wrecked in 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.
SS Norwich City was a British cargo steamship. She was built in 1911 as Normanby,and renamed Norwich City in 1919. She was wrecked in the Pacific Ocean in 1929. For many years her wreck was a sea mark on the atoll of Nikumaroro. The wreck is now largely broken up.
The Irene incident of 1927 was a British anti-piracy operation in China during the first half of the 20th century. In an attempt to surprise the pirates of Bias Bay,about sixty miles from British Hong Kong,Royal Navy submarines attacked the steamship 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 Burutu was a British steamship,sunk after a collision with the steamship City of Calcutta off the coast of South Wales about 25 miles south-west of Bardsey Island in the Irish Sea on 3 October 1918.
The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon was a tropical cyclone that hit Hong Kong on 18 September 1906. The natural disaster caused property damage exceeding a million pounds sterling,affected international trade,and took the lives of around 15,000 people.
SS Canadian was a British passenger ship which struck an iceberg and sank in the Strait of Belle Isle while she was travelling from Quebec,Canada to Liverpool,United Kingdom in 1861. Thirty-five out of 301 persons aboard the ship perished in the disaster.
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.
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.
USAT 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 a 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 was returning after taking supplies to Army troops fighting in the Aleutian Islands campaign.
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