Ships
Owner's
7.
TAIMING
Sang Woo S.S. Co.,Ltd.
G.R.T. (Built)
649 (1913)
8. KHONGTUNG
Yuen On S.S. Co. Ltd.
1218
(1904)
9. KHONGSAI
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11
11
1309 (1902)
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Owners Value
$300,000 at 3.9.39.
Mentioned as $131,335, but apparently no official statement by owners of valuation.
Mentioned as $131,335,, but apparently no- official statement by owners of valuation.
Lost or Salvaged
Stil sunk at Aberdeen; might have scrap value.
Salvaged and in operation.
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Purpose of Requisition
Requisitioned by H.M. for uso as block ship by Navy at Aberdeen 8.12.41 and so used.
Roquisitioned by H.M. for use as block ship by H.H. at Yaunati 8.12.41 and so used.
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In addition the following ship is claimed by owners through Solicitors to have been requisitioned by the Harbour Master at the same time but in respect of which there appears to be no Government record that it was so requisitioned.
10.
TUNG ON.
N.B.
Tung On S.S. Co.,Ltd.
1950 (1924)
$920,000 at 3.9.39.
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Was scuttled in Kowloon Bay; now raised and at prosent lying in Tsun Wan.
The owner states in his claim to H.. that the vessel was scuttled during hostilitios by order of H.K. Government,
The total potential claim in respect of the above 10 vessels, all of which are represented by Doacons, Solicitors, will be in the order of $8,000,000 assuming that the values giving are roughly correct, and excluding any allowance for hire before scuttling: a claim which is probably only material in the case of No. The values however do not appear, without further expert examination to be on an even basis. In two cases (Nos. 8 and 9) there may be a salvage recovery to off-set, and in three (Nos. 3,4, and 7) there may be a scrap recovery to off-set. With the exception of No.10, on which further information is requirod, all these claims must be met. respect of which claims are certainly enforceable 5 amounting to $4,600,000, were sunk by or used by the Navy, and 4, amounting to $2,500,000 were sunk by officers of the Hong Kong Government. The above figures take no account of interest. (ii) Ferries known to have been requisitioned by the Harbour Department.
Of the nine vessels in
All Ferries in Hong Kong were requisitioned for the movement primarily of Service personnel from the mainland to the island. Pay- ment for the use of the Ferries both before the fall of Hong Kong and after its recovery has been or is being negotiated with the two Companies, the Hong Kong and Yaumati Ferry Co., and the Star Ferry Co., and financial prevision is being mado for this, but nogotiations have not touched the question of liability for loss. All forries of both Companies were scuttled in the Naval Camber in the course of denial action but any liability in connection with their loss arises from the requisition not from the fact of denial action as such. all of them and most have been recovered and put into service again since the war.
The Japaneso raised some or Rehabilitation has been an expensive affair and it is probable that for the purposes of liability under the Requisitions they ought to bo treated as C.T.L. 4. Adequate information is not available on Government files, In 1946, before the Ferries vere back into service the following claims for loss were made:-
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