The Butlerfleld & Swire office in Shanghai first heard of the accident when a wire was received at 4.50 a.m. that day and a salvage tug was at once sent from Shanghai. The "North-China Herald" understands that the vessel will be patched up as well as possible by the crew of the salvage wg, the Shanghai Tug Lighter s, Saucy, and then brought back to Shanghai for dockyard repairs, The extent of the damage is The position of the Hsin Peking, 1,263 tons, is approximately two miles from Chinhai, at the mouth of the Ningpo River. The passengers and crew of the vessel, as well as the cargo, were believed to be danger partly because of the fortified zones near by. returning from Shanghai to the C.LM. school in Chefoo. Frantic "parents! were in great anxiety over' their children; it was known that the vessel had been located off Bias Bay, the notorious pirate headquarters near: Hongkong.
Through excellent work on the part of the ship's officers, the children Were returned to Shanghai unharmed, and doubtless will remember the event all their lives, In her twenty years' career as the senior C.N.C. vessel on the Tientsin run, the Tungchow, kept up her run with great credit. On several occa~ sions, she was known to have been Tong overdue, when battling against the winter north west monsoon, and Passengers and crew will tell of some bitterly cold and hazardous voyages, Held in great regard for her fine performance, the passing of years made it inevitable that she give way to newer and more modern boats, and ju 1934, she was relegated to the Shanghai-Ningpo run, to take the place of the old Hsin Peking. In keeping with custom, her name was changed to Hsin Peking, and her Diack paint, with white ports and. coamings, was scraped off, to be replaced with the brown of the river trade, 'And so from being the much-sought-Fafler passenger carrier, she Was Ignominiously relegated to the ranks of the "chicken boats." and placed on the short run' to Ningpo, "But she elained her reputation of keeping to her run, and now, lying stove Nemesis Rock, the passing of on other outstanding China Coaster is very possible, The Hsin Poking was towed to Ningpo on January 25.
Interesting History Should the accident bring about the breaking up of the Hsin Peking, a ship with one of the most interesting histories on the China Coast will end her days. Known formerly and more popularly as the s. Tungchow, this Tittle vessel was built at the Taikoo Dockyard at Hongkong in 1914, and placed on the Shanghai-Tientsin run. In her halcyon days, she was the flagship of the CNE. fleet, and has gone through a career as\ romantic fis that of any. vessel. Apart from carrying on her staid profession of a cargo carrier between the bigger ports of Shanghai and Tientsin, the Tungchow was the most popular of the passenger vessels on the northern run, and many a Shanghailander will remember making trips to Weihaiwei and Chefoo for his summer vacation in this ship, which in her day, was regdtded as almost a luxury liner on the China coast.
piracy occurred in 1934, when a large number of school children were
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