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had broken in half but, in 1956, the two pieces were removed in order to dredge that area of the river. The process took 160 days, after which the pieces were moved to the Jiangnan Shipyard and refurbished. She re-entered service at Shanghai's Shiliupu Dock on 4 February 1959, after which she served
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on 3 or 4 December 1948. Her wreck was cleared from the channel in 1956 and her hull refurbished, re-entering service. She was renamed the
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that was destroyed in an explosion near the mouth of the
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second deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history
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East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs and Folk Customs Museum
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The ship's wooden steering wheel is preserved at the
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operations in June 2000, a major oil fire broke out.
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Archived from 14: 1806: 490: 429:Jackson, Joe (January 20, 2012). 1775:Shipwrecks in the East China Sea 1688:ROC Government retreat to Taiwan 1372: 1359: 1340: 1324: 1315: 1306: 1295: 1277: 1264: 1254: 1244: 1182: 1177: 43: 28: 1677:Yangtze River Crossing campaign 511:from the original on 2020-08-07 451:Blunders & Disasters at Sea 191:50 miles (80 km) north of 441: 422: 259: 254: 215: 210: 206: 175: 166: 158: 1: 1717:Kuomintang Islamic insurgency 1692:PRC incorporation of Xinjiang 1284:Constitutional ROC Government 472: 1795:Military history of Shanghai 1706:Wanshan Archipelago Campaign 1442:Chinese Communist Revolution 497:Li Heng (23 November 2001). 415: 7: 1780:Maritime incidents in China 1302:Republic of China on Taiwan 1270:National Revolutionary Army 1238:Principal belligerents and 403: 362:The recovered wheel of the 16:Chinese passenger steamship 10: 1811: 1750:Maritime incidents in 1948 1514:Fujian People's Government 1380:People's Republic of China 410:List of maritime disasters 384:The ship gave her name to 209:; simplified Chinese: 205:(traditional Chinese: 1387: 1234: 1172: 1120: 578: 448:Blackmore, David (2004). 353: 116: 36: 27: 1365:People's Liberation Army 238:Shanghai Merchants Group 1504:Chinese Soviet Republic 1480:Autumn Harvest Uprising 388:, one of the component 291:, possibly laid by the 117:General characteristics 1702:Hainan Island campaign 1581:Double Tenth Agreement 1577:Chongqing Negotiations 1494:Encirclement campaigns 370: 342:. She was renamed the 326: 293:Imperial Japanese Navy 1790:Disasters in Shanghai 1591:Jiaochangkou Incident 1139:June (unknown date): 361: 321: 287:. She probably hit a 1760:Shipwrecks in rivers 538:on October 24, 2012. 275:, she was bound for 1785:Shipwrecks of China 1770:Ships sunk by mines 1544:Second United Front 1464:Nanjing–Wuhan split 1412:Sun–Joffe Manifesto 1261:National Government 648:Gertrude L. Thebaud 227:Cultural Revolution 155:traditional Chinese 97: /  24: 1484:Guangzhou Uprising 1422:First United Front 1104:Schleswig-Holstein 621:Joseph V. 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31°15′N 121°47′E / 31.250°N 121.783°E / 31.250; 121.783
Steamship
traditional Chinese
simplified Chinese
pinyin
Chinese
steamship
Huangpu River
Shanghai
Cultural Revolution
Shanghai Merchants Group
sister ship
SS Kiangking
displacement
tons
Chinese Civil War
Ningbo
Shiliupu Dock
Communists
mine
Imperial Japanese Navy
Second World War
stowaways
second deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history

ferry
Wuhan
shipbreaking

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