Twenty ships totalling over 100,000 tons were driven ashore by typhoon winds that rose in gusts to 140 knots. Two tugs went down with the loss of 39 lives. In Wan Chai (below) hawkers' stalls were reduced to match- wood, shop windows and glass balconies torn out, and streets littered by debris that was sodden by rain.
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