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High school student
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Mother from London
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Student from Chiayi
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Poseidon
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Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a Chinese freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off Weihaiwei. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using "Davis gear," an early form of diving equipment: six of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident was then forgotten, eclipsed by the greater drama that followed in World War II, until news emerged that, for obscure reasons, the Chinese government had salvaged the wrecked submarine in 1972. This lively account of the Poseidon incident tells the story of the accident and its aftermath, and of the author’s own quest to find out about the 1972 salvage. —Hong Kong University Press
Sinica Podcast
10.11.13
Steven Schwankert and the HMS Poseidon
from Sinica Podcast When the HMS Poseidon struck a Chinese freighter in the Gulf of Bohai in 1931, the collision sparked a devastating accident that would see the British submarine plunge to the ocean floor in mere minutes, claiming the lives of nearly half the crew,...
Book Review:
Matt Hodges, China Daily (March 25, 2014)
Bill Purves, Caixin (December 13, 2013)
Jonathan Kaiman, The Guardian (October 18, 2013)
Debra Bruno, Wall Street Journal (October 15, 2013)
