{"id":612,"date":"2024-08-27T03:45:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/?page_id=612"},"modified":"2024-08-27T03:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T03:45:51","slug":"chinese-canadian-crew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/chinese-canadian-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Canadian Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The EMPRESS OF ASIA completed her 307th\u00a0and last crossing of the Pacific on January 11<sup>th<\/sup>, 1941. Two days later the ship was formally requisitioned as a troop carrier and preparations were begun for the delivery of the ship to Liverpool for refitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While in the peace time mercantile trade the EMPRESS OF ASIA was manned in part by a Chinese crew that were recruited in Asia, signed on under Hong Kong Articles, and had filled positions in the Engine, Deck and Catering Departments.&nbsp;&nbsp;When the ship was requisitioned, the Chinese crew (with the exception of four individuals) were discharged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These four became members of the delivery crew that sailed the ship to Liverpool for conversion to a troop carrier.&nbsp;&nbsp;After the conversion they remained with the ship on the voyage to Suez and to Singapore.&nbsp;&nbsp;After the loss of the EMPRESS OF ASIA at Sultan Shoal the four were successfully repatriated to North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, Chan Kam and Chan Lam are reported by the Vancouver Daily Province (May 19, 1942 Page 3) to have arrived in Vancouver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th>NAME<\/th><th>RATING<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Chan, Kam<\/td><td>Joiner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chan, Lam<\/td><td>Joiner<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chang, Tin Yau&nbsp;&nbsp;(Chan, Tin Yau)<\/td><td>Rustyman<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Win, Chin (Wu Chiu)<\/td><td>Storekeeper<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EMPRESS OF ASIA completed her 307th\u00a0and last crossing of the Pacific on January 11th, 1941. Two days later the ship was formally requisitioned as a troop carrier and preparations were begun for the delivery of the ship to Liverpool for refitting. While in the peace time mercantile trade the EMPRESS OF ASIA was manned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-612","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/612\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empressofasia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}