HKO - Under the Same Sky 130 Years - Display Area 6: Exhibit 6
Display Area 6 : Natural Disasters in Hong Kong before WWII
Exhibit 6
A Few Hours' Experience with a Typhoon in the China Sea, published in Boston, USA in 1900. This book describes the freighter Living Age experiencing a typhoon in the China Sea (now known as the South China Sea) in November 1853. The first page of the book also mentions the typhoon disasters of 1862 and 1874 which caused severe casualties in Guangdong and Hong Kong.
Courtesy of the Hong Kong Maritime Museum
