SS Hsin Wah
History | |
---|---|
Owner: | China Merchants Steam Navigation Company |
Builder: | Napier and Miller |
Launched: | 1921 |
Fate: | Sank 1929 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Steamship |
SS Hsin Wah | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 新華輪 | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Simplified Chinese | 新华轮 | ||||||||
Postal | SS Hsin Wah | ||||||||
Literal meaning | New China warship | ||||||||
|
SS Hsin Wah, now also known as the SS Xinhua, was a steamship owned by China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, navigating between Canton City, Hong Kong, Shanghai.[1] She was built in 1921 by Napier & Miller in Glasgow. The ship was once seized by pirates of Bias Bay in 1928 and saved by the SS Zhongshan (then written Chung Shan). She sunk in 1929 when grounded on northern rocks of Waglan, an island southeast of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong, with a loss of between 300 and 400 lives.[2][1]
References
- 1 2 "Ship Sink Off Waglan". The Hongkong Telegraph. 16 January 1929.
- ↑ 300 die on Chinese ship, The New York Times (17 January 1929)
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.