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Image ID22841
TitleThe 'Mei Shun' on fire, Shanghai
CollectionShanghai Municipal Police
LocationShanghai
Year1911
DateFriday 25 August 1911
Image typeBlack and white photograph
Material form
of image		Paper
Note(s)University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: pe01-027. Photo from an album (UoB reference pe01).
See pe01-129.
The Bremen registered 'Meishun' was built in 1900, destroyed by fire in 1911, rebuilt, purchased in 1912 from North German Lloyd, Bremen, and sank in gale at Osaka 1945. Thousands watched it burn in Shanghai on 25 August 1911, after an explosion in the hold. See North China Herald, 2 September 1911, pp. 571-72.
Keyword(s) [en]SMP ; Shanghai ; Municipal ; Police ; Peck ; ship
HPC referencepe01-027
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