Date13-Jun-1949
TypeSea Disaster
CountryCHINA
LocationBetween Tientsin & Hong Kong
ActivityA 75-ton Japanese fishing ship was sunk by Chinese Nationalist gunboat, shipwrecked men were clinging to debris
InjuryFATAL, at time of sinking several men were thrown in water & killed by sharks, survivors were rescued 3 days later by the Panamanian ship Christobel
VictimJapanese fishermen, Male
SourceV.M. Coppleson (1958), pp.257-258
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