To return for the last time to the career of the old Changwo. She served. the port of Changsha' year in and out with a popularity that. grew 0 monotonous that she felt Lompelled to relieve the daily by distinguishing herself in not always pleasing to, her owners The vessel during the height flood crossed the rear loop of the Middle Yangtze known as Parmer' Bend, much to the alarm of th duck' breeders who complained that the "wheelbarrow" frightened thelt
"traffic summons." brood and the company' received Tu 1909 the Changwo was wreck-in the Mopanshih" Rocks that Stick up above the water near Yo: chow like a row of broken teeth. She was salved by. the Shanghai 'Tug & Tighter Ca., Ltd., who maintained an establishment' at, Hankow in those days. Whilst. there. may be nothing peculiar about. this acident, there was, in 1922 when the Ship struck the identical rock again and was saved this time by. the New Engineering & Shipbuilding, Works of Shanghai. There were no lives, lost on either occasion, and although we have no idea how the passengers fared on the first oc-€asion we note from the records that on "the second "the passengers were served with hot coffee at 2.30 am."—all teetotallers evidently.
the best of spirits in those non-tariff days ran to $1.50 a bottle! Five years later the Yochow area was to become notorious being the stronghold of the Reds" who mounted a fort on the North bank of the river opposite the Mopan shih Rocks, thus adding to the dangers of navigation and providing a new use for steel plates "As we said at the outset, fow vessels have had such adventurous career as the Indodhina Steam Navigation Company's Changwo and in bidding the loyal old packet goodbye we do s0 with a full mea. Sure of regret that will be share by countless numbers that have come in contact with her over 42 eventual years.
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