英国皇家海军的“HMS”和“RFA”的关系，类似于美国海军的“USS”和“USNS”。 HMAS-意为“His/Her Majesty's Australian Ship/陛下的澳大利亚舰艇”，皇家澳大利亚海军舰艇用此前缀。 JS-意 …

Caption: View of the Yangtze waterfront at Ichang circa Spring 1937. USS OAHU (PR-6) at top left, HMS GANNET British river gunboat 1926, just below OAHU. Description: Courtesy of Rear Admiral...

The Kia Wo set sail from Ichang on the 4th September, moored overnight in a bay of the gorges, and arrived at Wanhsien on the afternoon of the 5th. Darley instructed Williamson to take the ship alongside the Wanhsien, whose crew members were on deck, with Chinese troops below decks and on shore alongside.

Steamer navigation was first achieved on the most difficult section between Yichang (then Ichang) and Chongqing in 1900 by the merchant skipper Samuel Plant, on the small vessel 'Pioneer'. This was specially built for the attempt under the supervision of …

Hankow, six hundred miles inland, can at all seasons of the year take ocean going vessels. Ichang, three hundred and fifty miles further inland, marks the upper limit of ordinary river steamers. Down from this point, the river runs through a vast alluvial plain, in places almost as fickle and capricious as to channel as is our Mississippi.

A junk sailing through the Ichang Gorge, Upper Yangtze River Alice Sophia Plant, with two dogs, at the Plant's bungalow above the Xintan Rapid, Upper Yangtze River

Founded in 1876 in London, initially to trade up the Yangtze River from their Shanghai base with passengers and cargo, the Union Steam Navigation Co. of Shanghai was taken over the following year. Chinese coastal trade started shortly after and …

As well as his work for the Customs, he prepared a Handbook for the Guidance of Shipmasters on the Ichang-Chungking Section of the Yangtze River (1916). Early in February 1921 he proceeded on home leave, but died at sea.

Images tagged with "Chinese Maritime Customs Service"Revenue Cruiser 'Ping Ching'

Dating many of the photographs has not been easy, but it has been possible to link them to HMS Durban's general movements. Most of the (incomplete) movements are from The Times archives, for which I am grateful. Dates reported in the press …