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World-Wide Group
MARINE DISCOVERER
Ningpo-born (Sir) Yue-kong (Y.K). Pao was part of the Shanghai exodus to Hong Kong in the late 1940s but did not venture into shipping until 1955. Nevertheless, his World-Wide S.S. Co. Ltd very quickly transformed from a modest fleet of secondhand tramps into a new-built fleet of bulk carriers and tankers that by the early 1980s had surpassed 20 million tonnes and was the largest private fleet in the world. In 1985 through takeover of Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd the shipping interest was complemented by extensive holdings in property, wharves, terminals, and public transport. This pdf summarises the history of the World-Wide Group but its focus is on the original and hitherto undocumented fleet of trampships. The photo shows the 'Ocean'-type MARINE DISCOVERER (1942) at Hobart on 25 June 1961, taken by David Kirby from the Pontoon Bridge below Risdon (coll. Rex Cox)."
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VENDERS
Chip Seng Co. Ltd.
Chip Seng Co. was set up about 1958 by Wee Mon-Cheng, who previously had worked for rice trader and shipowner Chip Hwa (q.v.). He bought his first ship in 1960 and gradually built up a diverse fleet registered variously in Singapore, Hong Kong and Panama. He was never a ship operator but chartered out, mainly to Japanese firms, for some of which he acted as agent in Singapore. Nevertheless, shipowning was always subsidiary to his main interest in banking. In later years he became Singapore's ambassador to Japan. The two photos are of, above, VENDERS ex MUI HOCK (1936) in Malacca Strait by Peter Foxley (coll. W. Schell) and below the 'Fort'-type PROGRESS (1943) at Aden by Ron Sherlock (coll. W. Schell).
PROGRESS
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WAINGAPOE
The 'Wai' class quartette of 1948-49 were an unusual but very practical hybrid design built for the cattle trade from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara) to Java and Singapore. After the KPM's expulsion from Indonesia, they plied as far away as the Persian Gulf and East Africa before being sold in 1965 to P.N. Djakarta Lloyd for the cattle trade to Hong Kong, though later they were also used in the Indonesia-Australia line. The photo above of WAINGAPOE (1949) in Djakarta Lloyd colours was taken by John Mathieson (NAA) from the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 23 June 1970.
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