01 Dangerous Rapids on the Yangtze River

Title: 01 Dangerous Rapids on the Yangtze River
Caption: Where German Steamer Sank
Identifier: NEB_04
Alternative Identifier: 579-24
Description: Image of Yangtze shoals. This refers to the German steamer Sui Hsiang which, on its maiden voyage in 1900, struck this rock and sank within 15 minutes. Two CIM missionaries who were on board were saved by the Chinese lifeboats that were stationed here due to the frequency of accidents at this place (Davidson 1905).
Creator: Newton E. Bowles
Date Created: 1907
Location: Upper Yangtze River at the mouth of the Niu Kan Gorge
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/8518429/niukou.html
Event: 1906-1907 Bowles' First Yangtze River Journey
Original Format: Photographic Print
Source: David Rutherford
Provenance: Bowles Family Archives
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Contributor: Nicholas Fowler; Cory Willmott
Type: Still Image
References: Davidson, Robert J., and Isaac Mason. Life in West China. London: Headley Brothers, 1905.
Published In: Newton Bowles Memoires: Part 2: On to China