By Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1910)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The full album can be viewed in sequence.
This typhoon had caused a severed damage to many junks and small crafts. The urge of building another typhoon shelter was strong after this incident.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Two of the RAMC soliders showing the years of their unti's service atop an image of a nursing sister of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps first formed in 1902, wearing the medals of one of the soldiers.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The 'Star' ferry wrecked a pier on Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
Wreckage was widely scattered around the pier. People were trying to look for survivors.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The Canadian Pacific Railway Steamer 'Monteagle' ashore in Stonecutter Island, Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The 1698 ton German steamer 'Petrarch' was catapulted by wind and waves onto the steamers 'Emma Luyken' and 'Montreagle'. The hulls of both of these smaller steamers were crushed by the 'Petrarch', which then careened into the Kowloon Wharf, demolishing a large chunk of it.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The Royal Navy 'HMS Phoenix', a 1050 tons sloop ( a single gun deck warship) was capsized on the possible Yau Ma Tei shore. The vessel was raised in 1907.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
French destroyer 'La Fronde' was destroyed when trying to rescue the typhoon victims.
Hong Kong Typhoon 'Bingwu' photo album (1906)Hong Kong Maritime Museum
The stormy seas raging along the Central waterfront.
This exhibit was curated by Kitty But.
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