CO129-606-5 Hong Kong Loan- Financial settlement 2-3-1948 - 4-10-1948 — Page 67

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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30. CHUNG SHAN (Br.)

H.K. Canton Macao Steam- boat Co. Ltd.

1085.

(1934)

$750,000 at 3.9.41.

31. TIN YAT (Br.)

Fook on S.S. Co.

942 (Registered

1929)

$300,000 at 3.9.41.

Sunk after capture by British gunfire in Kowloon Bay. 15th December, 1941.

Scuttled at Abordeon on

H.M. Orders 1941; Raised and repaired by Japanese; later sunk at Saigon.

Burnt out hull was in Naval Dockyard on reoccupation, and has been reported to have been sold by Navy.

Represented by Deacons,

Solicitors.

32. TINLEY (Br.)

Colonial Navigation Trading Co. Ltd.

420

(Unknown)

Not Recorded.

Scuttled in Kowloon Bay.

33. CAMBAY PRINCE (Br.)

Stated to be owned by Mallem & Co. Ltd.

455 (1913)

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34. CHUEN HING (Br.)

Law Man operating under name of Chuen Hing S.S. Co.

504 (1937)

$180,000 at 3.9.41.

66

Scuttled alongside Douglas Pior, Hong Kong. Raised by Japanese. No. trace.

Scuttled in Kowloon Bay.

Recovered by ownors and again in operation.

Clain made by Messrs. John Manners to Hong Kong Government.

To this list should probably be added No. 10 ̊in List A. as there seems insufficient evidence that the vessel was requisitioned, (TUNGON, (Br.) 1950 G.R.T., built 1924, $920,000 3.9.39, believed scuttled in Kowloon Bay), and possibly:-

35. CHUEN CHO7 (Br.)

$150,000

Tai Ping St. Nav. Co. Given by Lloyds Registor as Cheung Chuen On Steambost Co. Ltd.

1088 (1928)

36. TAI HING (Br.)

Sang To., S.S. Co. Ltd.

1068

$500,000

Sunk at Aberdeen and broken up by Japanese; still at Abordeen.

No ovilence is recorded to show whether this is a case of scuttling or war damage.

Scuttled in Deep Water Bay. Later raised by Japanese,

Loanod by Sir Robert Ho Tung to H.K.R.N.V.I. who used it as H.M.S. "Comflower"; scuttled by order of Government.

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