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HERMES herself though always small and crowded, and below decks a very hot ship, seems to have been a happy ship and "old hands" with whom I have chatted refer to her with considerable affection (JP).
6840 tons. On 5th May 1942, just a day before the surrender of U.S. forces, to be sunk in Manila Bay by Japanese air attack.
'Public Record Office/National Archives, Kew. File PRO ADM 156/101-2. Report by Captain E.J.G. Mackinnon dated at Wei-Hai-Wei, 13 June 1931.
*Built in Aberdeen in 1889 as YUEN SANG, 1,723 grt, for Indo-China S.N. Co. Ltd. (Jardine Matheson & Co.). In August 1923 sold by them to Mr. Pao Ying Lin for Yen 75,000. Registered at Newchwang, China. Newchwang is in Southern Manchuria, and in 1931 within a Japanese zone of influence. Only to be sold to the breakers in 1937, aged 48 years.
'PRO ADM 116/2843. China General Letter No. 7 covering the period 1 - 30 September 1931.
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"Ewo is Jardine's Chinese name 'Happy Harmony' - I believe adopted from that of a merchant in Canton with whom they did business in very early days (JP).
"Lieut. E.H. Chavasse, Up and Down the Yangtze, printed privately.
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122,595 grt. Built in Hong Kong in 1926 for Indo-China S.N. Co. Ltd (Jardine Matheson & Co.). In 1940 to be requisitioned for service as an auxiliary patrol vessel with the Royal Navy. On 13 February 1942, when carrying escaping personnel south from Singapore towards Batavia, to be bombed by Japanese aircraft. Damaged, beached and abandoned at Muntok on Banda Island.
"PRO ADM 116/2843. Report 0702/204 dated at Hankow, 6 October 1931.
"PRO ADM 53/78855. Log book, H.M.S. HERMES.
15625 tons. Built in 1915. In March 1939 to be sold for scrap.
Anne M. Lindbergh (1936). North to the Orient. (London: Chatto & Windus), 248. Born on 22nd June 1906 she was to die only as recently as 7th February 2001.
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HERMES herself though always small and crowded, and below decks a very hot ship, seems to have been a happy ship and "old hands" with whom I have chatted refer to her with considerable affection (JP).
6840 tons. On 5th May 1942, just a day before the surrender of U.S. forces, to be
sunk in Manila Bay by Japanese air attack.
'Public Record Office/National Archives, Kew. File PRO ADM 156/101-2. Report
by Captain E.J.G. Mackinnon dated at Wei-Hai-Wei, 13 June 1931.
*Built in Aberdeen in 1889 as YUEN SANG, 1,723 grt, for Indo-China S.N. Co. Ltd. (Jardine Matheson & Co.). In August 1923 sold by them to Mr. Pao Ying Lin for Yen 75,000. Registered at Newchwang, China. Newchwang is in Southern Manchuria, and in 1931 within a Japanese zone of influence. Only to be sold to the breakers in 1937, aged 48 years.
'PRO ADM 116/2843. China General Letter No. 7 covering the period 1 - 30
September 1931.
-
"Ewo is Jardine's Chinese name 'Happy Harmony' - I believe adopted from that
of a merchant in Canton with whom they did business in very early days (JP).
"Lieut. E.H. Chavasse, Up and Down the Yangtze, printed privately.
-
122,595 grt. Built in Hong Kong in 1926 for Indo-China S.N. Co. Ltd (Jardine Matheson & Co.). In 1940 to be requisitioned for service as an auxiliary patrol vessel with the Royal Navy. On 13 February 1942, when carrying escaping personnel south from Singapore towards Batavia, to be bombed by Japanese aircraft. Damaged, beached and abandoned at Muntok on Banda Island.
"PRO ADM 116/2843. Report 0702/204 dated at Hankow, 6 October 1931.
"PRO ADM 53/78855. Log book, H.M.S. HERMES.
15625 tons. Built in 1915. In March 1939 to be sold for scrap.
Anne M. Lindbergh (1936). North to the Orient. (London: Chatto & Windus), 248. Born on 22nd June 1906 she was to die only as recently as 7th February 2001.
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