UCCM Missionaries Onboard the Marine Lynx

Title: UCCM Missionaries Onboard the Marine Lynx
Caption: Our United Church missionaries arrive in Shanghai from San Francisco, Dec. 15-31st, 1947
Identifier: DS_066
Alternative Identifier: 009
Description: A group of thirteen missionary men and women, along with children Dora Ann and David Stinson, mill about on the deck of the Marine Lynx while getting ready to pose for a group photograph. Dora Ann is seated at left with her back to the camera. Isabelle Stinson is seated center front with David in front of her.
Commentary: United Church of Canada Mission (UCCM). Beatrice Kitchen (standing second to right) and her daughter Muriel Tonge (seated and bending over at right). Beatrice died in a plane crash on the next stage of this journey and Muriel was in her third trimester of pregnancy onboard.
Creator: John Stinson
Date Created: 1946-12-31
Location: Shanghai, China
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1796236/shanghai.html
Event: Stinsons on the Marine Lynx, 1946
Source: David Stinson
Provenance: Stinson Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2026-02-08
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image