Category: Shipyards + Shipping

BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, mid to late December 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements

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Talthybius SS Image Courtesy Benjidog Co.uk

Elizabeth Ride has sent the Naval section of a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS No.16) dated 14th January 1943. This covers shipping movements in and out of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two during mid to late December 1942. These reports also describes time spent by vessels undergoing repairs and maintenance in a […]

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BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, early to mid December 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements

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BAAG WIS#15 30.12.42 Detail Map Of Kowloon Docks

Elizabeth Ride has sent the Naval section of a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS No.15) dated 30th December 1942. This covers shipping movements in and out of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two during December 1942. These reports also describes time spent by vessels undergoing repairs and maintenance in a number of Hong […]

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Auguste Pierre Marty – obituary, brother of A R Marty, founder of A. R. Marty in Hong Kong 1874

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Marty, Auguste Pierre Obituary A2 SCMP25.1.1909 Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies: Auguste Pierre Marty, who died in HK in 1909, was resident here (and in his latter years Spanish Consul) from his arrival, aged 17, in 1871, to work for his brother Auguste Raphael Marty (who also lived in HK until he moved to Haiphong in 1906 where he died in 1914), who founded the company (A.R. Marty & […]

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Auguste Raphael Marty, obituary, founder of A. R. Marty in Hong Kong 1874

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Marty, Auguste Raphael Obituary Detail 3 SCMP 17.12.1914

“The French merchant Auguste Raphael Marty (1841–1914) established his own trading house, A. R. Marty et Cie, in Hong Kong in 1874. Following the acquisition of northern Indochina by France, he and his business partner, [Edouard] Jules d’Abbadie  in September 1886, founded the shipping company Marty et d’Abbadie in the port of Haiphong.”(1) Information about A.R.Marty et Cie appears thin on […]

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BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, late November 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements

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BAAG Report WIS #14 Detail A1

Elizabeth Ride has sent the Naval section of a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS No.14) dated 16th December 1942. This covers shipping movements in and out of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two during late November 1942. These reports also describes time spent by vessels undergoing repairs and maintenance in a number of […]

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BAAG Naval Section Intelligence Summary, mid November 1942, ship repair, maintenance and movements

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HMS Thracian Image

Elizabeth Ride has sent the Naval section of a British Army Aid Group (BAAG) Waichow Intelligence Summary (WIS No.12) dated 18th November 1942. This covers shipping movements in and out of Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two during mid November 1942. These reports also describes time spent by vessels undergoing repairs and maintenance in a number of […]

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A R Marty & Company – Compagnie de Navigation Tonkinoise, Marty et D’Abbadie shipyard Haiphong

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Haiphong Image

HF: Our article, Tung Tai Tseung Kee & Company, 同泰祥記, engineers and shipbuilders, 1897 to c1945, mentions “The proprietor of the firm, Mr Lan Fat, was born in San On Province, China, received his education in Hongkong, and was afterwards apprenticed as a draughtsman to Messrs. Fenwick & Co. for nine years. He was then for nearly two years engineer […]

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BAAG records of shipping in HK during 1944-45 – the Tosan Maru, pre-war China Navigation’s SS Soochow 2

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Soochow 2 Small Version Image Wikiswire

Elizabeth Ride has British Army Aid Group (BAAG) records of shipping movements for 1944-45 in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two. These provide information not only about the ships themselves but what cargo was being brought into and out of Hong Kong during the latter stages of WW2, passengers carried, and of godowns, docks etc that were […]

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BAAG records of shipping in HK during 1944-45 – the Sainan (aka Tsinan) Maru

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BAAG KWIZ #66 Detail Sainan

Elizabeth Ride has British Army Aid Group (BAAG) records of shipping movements for 1944-45 in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two. These provide information not only about the ships themselves but what cargo was being brought into and out of Hong Kong during the latter stages of WW2, passengers carried, and of godowns, docks etc that were […]

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BAAG records of shipping in HK during 1944-45 – the Eisen (aka Sakikawa) Maru

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BAAG KWIZ #66 Detail Eisen Maru

Elizabeth Ride has British Army Aid Group (BAAG) records of shipping movements for 1944-45 in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation in World War Two. These provide information not only about the ships themselves but what cargo was being brought into and out of Hong Kong during the latter stages of WW2, passengers carried, and of godowns, docks etc that were […]

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