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Sui geng : the Hong Kong marine police 1841-1950 / Iain Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Iain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harbor police--China--Hong Kong--History.
- Harbor police.
- Police--China--Hong Kong--History.
- Police.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 p.)
- Other Title:
- Hong Kong marine police 1841-1950
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Hong Kong Marine Police have patrolled Hong Kong's waters for a hundred and fifty eventful years, during a time which has been tumultuous, even for the China Coast. Pirates, typhoon, wars, triumphs and defeats have all play a part in their story, which in many ways reflects that of Hong Kong itself.This book tells of the unit's first 109 years, from the tentative rowing patrols of Hong Kong Harbour in 19841 to the gunboats of the 1930s and the ragged flotilla which reinstated the rule of law after the cataclysm of World War II. Where possible the story is told by the men who lived it, and
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- An introduction to the Hong Kong Marine Police
- The Marine Magistrate 1841-1845
- "Untrustworthy and ill-paid" 1845-1860
- "Hulks" 1860-1872
- Consolidation 1872-1884
- "The old lady of Tsim Sha Tsui" 1884-1991
- Steam! 1885-1898
- New territories, new everything 1898-1909
- Coming of age 1909-1922
- The turbulent twenties 1992-1928
- The doomed thirties 1929-1937
- The Water Police in 1937, a profile
- End of an era 1938-1942 Resurrection: the new beginning 1942-1946
- The reconstruction of the fleet 1946-1948
- Water Police, Marine Police, "Sui geng" 1948-1950
- Fleet list
- Water/Marine Police manpower
- Water/Marine Police officers killed on duty November 1945-May 1949
- Offences dealt with by Marine Magistrate prior to 1900
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70713-2
- 9786612707131
- 988-220-283-7
- OCLC:
- 654829204
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