A distant starboard beam view of a Yeungkong fisher type junk under sail in Sai Wan Bay off Lyemun, Hong Kong

A distant starboard broadside view of a Yeungkong fisher type junk under sail in Sai Wan Bay off Lyemun, Hong Kong. She has single lug sails set on three masts. In the left background is the Japanese passenger liner Asama Maru (1929) aground awaiting refloating. She was blown aground during a hurricane on 2 September 1937 and was refloated in March 1938 after much material, including two of her four main engine, had been removed.

Object Details

ID: P34068
Type: Rolled film negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Waters, David Watkin
Places: China
Vessels: Yeungkong type; Asama Maru (1929)
Date made: 14 October 1937 to 8 January 1938
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Waters Collection