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issued in
English and Chinese outlining the Plant Memorial Fund objectives and the formation of a Plant Memorial Committee, with representatives from Great Britain, America, China, Japan and France. Donations were collected from individuals, ship crews, and shipping firms. Though the Fund was successful in constructing the memorial and providing for Plant's adopted Chinese daughters, there is no evidence the Fund met its objective of installing a drinking fountain.
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defacement came during the Land Reform
Movement in the 1950s. In either case, Xintan, a Chinese community of river pilots and junk owners, had been protective of the memorial and of Plant's contributions to them and the Yangtze. During his retirement, Plant lived among the residents of Xintan, outside of the treaty ports and away from the foreign settlements and his fellow expatriates.
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in the 1960s came in an act of xenophobia to tear down what they considered to be an honor to a foreigner. The solid granite obelisk proved difficult to raze entirely and the Red Guard expressed their sentiments by chiseling out every character and letter in the inscriptions. Others have reported the
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October 4, 1923, the Plant monument, designed by Lawrence Tweedie-Stodart, was erected in Xintan at the site of Captain Plant's former bungalow. The obelisk was inscribed both in English and in Chinese. Two of the four sides of the monument faced the Yangtze River diagonally. The English wording
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Service, the first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper
Yangtze River (1900), and the first to command regular Upper Yangtze commercial steamship service for the Chinese firm, Sichuan Steam Navigation Company. The monument was originally located at Big Temple Hill in Xintan (now called
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proposed the creation of a
Memorial Fund to Captain Plant. He outlined three goals: 1) to build a monument to perpetuate Plant's memory and service, 2) to install a drinking fountain for trackers and 3), to provide for the Plants’ two Chinese daughters. On March 6, 1922, a pamphlet was printed and
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Shanghai for travel to England on February 23, 1921. After only three days at sea, Captain Plant, who had been ailing, died in his cabin from pneumonia, despite ship doctor's efforts to treat his condition. Alice, who was struggling too, died three days later, from heart failure when the ship
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Project and considered an important historical landmark for Three Gorges shipping history, the monument was moved to higher ground and restored between June 28, 2002 and
January 18, 2003. This project was funded by Zigui County Office of Immigration and managed by Qu-Yuan Township Government.
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faced East because
Captain Plant came from the sea and could be seen traveling upriver from the coast. The Chinese wording faced West because the Chinese came from the interior and could be seen traveling downriver Sichuan. The original English inscription read:
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A. C. Bromfield with
Rosemary Lee, "The Life and Times of Captain Samuel Cornel Plant, Master Mariner and Senior Inspector, Upper Yangtze River, Chinese Maritime Customs",
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Brandmeyer, "Cornell Plant, Lost Girls and Recovered Lives: Sino-British Relations at the Human Level in Late Qing and Early Republican China,"
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Post-1949, the Plant Memorial was vandalized. There is some debate about the origins of the Plant Memorial defacement. Some say the National
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211:薄藍田君，英國福藍臨岡鎮人，中國海關任以巡江工司之職。 清光緒二十六年，長江上段第一次航行汽船司駕駛者即君焉。 君生於清同治五年六月二十八日，民國十年初春航海返國，一月十九日卒於途次。 君之舊友及有誌振興長江上段航業諸人，感君情愫，思君勤勞，醵金刻石，以誌不忘。
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Plant Memorial Fund Brochure, 20th March 1923, MS/69/123, Papers of Capt. Samuel Cornell Plant, National Maritime Museum Greenwich.
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conducted the graveside service. The Plants' two adopted Chinese daughters were among the chief mourners.
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189:BORN AT FRAMLINGHAM, SUFFOLK, 8TH AUGUST 1866.
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386:Knots in a Sailor's Life
350:Knots in a Sailor's Life
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485:Vandalized works of art
328:The North-China Herald,
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201:ON THE UPPER YANGTZE
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208:薄藍田君紀念碑
65:Material
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69:Granite
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362:Ibid.
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