sailor on shore leave in Hong Kong, 1800s

mudwerks:

Piction (by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives)

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HMS Argonaut; WW1 Cruiser

Photographs brought back from Hong Kong in 1900.

1867-1876 China Punch - Hong Kong’s First Cartoon Paper

In April 1867, China Punch, a fortnightly illustrated paper, was published by the China Mail, and conducted by editor W.N. Middleton and others (unfortunately, I do not know who the cartoonists were).

China Punch ran on lines quite similar to its London prototype - the Punch, which was created by wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew in 1841. The duo got the idea for the paper from a satirical French paper, Charivari, and in fact the first issued (July 17, 1841) was subtitled ‘The London Charivri’.

The China Punch featured local topics and men in a humorous and effective manner, coded, however with heavy colonial flavor making fun of local Chinese customs and assuming the superiority of British values. Such were met with almost instant popularity among the Western residents and visitors alike in Hong Kong.

The paper ceased publication between May 28, 1868 and November 5, 1872, and was permanently closed on November 22, 1876 when Middleton left Hong Kong. The “Twentieth Century Impression of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China” said that since that time no paper of the kind has managed to rival its humorous and its witty caricatures and cartoons.

source: Hong Kong’s First

see also: Puck, or the Shanghai Charivari, Shanghai, Feb 1, 1872

Sailings November 1928-August 1929

Ports of call:
Vancouver, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila

CP Ships / Canadian Pacific Steamships

- timetable images -

coldisthesea:

“Waiting at Hong Kong, 14/08/1937

Royal Welch Fusiliers awaiting to board the MMV Maron, requsitioned to transport the R.W.F and to evacuate British expatriates from Shanghai.”

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Luxurious Passenger Service aboard Orient Overseas Line; Sailings 1970; Hong Kong

allcreatures:

An octopus is released by a group of Buddhists into Victoria harbour in Hong Kong on 4 December 2010. The group gather regularly to release fish left unsold from Hong Kong’s thriving local markets back into the harbour, while offering prayers of long life and freedom from future captors.

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USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4)

In the Kowloon dry dock, Hong Kong, China, in 1901

• U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph

The 1863 iron screw troopship HMS Tamar became a shore base accommodation vessel in Hong Kong in 1897. The hulk was scrapped in 1941, the year this photograph was taken.

• Naval Historical Society of Australia

Hong Kong

• Found in a Thrift Store: 35mm Slides

Chinese crews, 1905

The Pacific Mail Steamship Company hired Chinese workers exclusively to crew its ships and run its port facilities. Only its ships’ officers were American or European. “The saving therefrom, in wages, food, &c., will be very great,” wrote the company president. But by 1915, pressure from sailors’ unions and discriminatory government labor rules had begun to force hundreds of Chinese seamen out of their jobs.

In this image Chinese crew handle mooring lines near the stern of the Pacific Mail steamer Siberia. About 227 Chinese crew worked aboard Siberia on each of its 11 roundtrip voyages between Hong Kong and San Francisco.

Photograph by Jack London