WHAT HAPPENED TO TITANIC’S CHINESE PASSENGERS?
Jun 10, 2021
1 minute
Among the hundreds of men and women on board were eight Chinese seamen – of whom two were Cantonese and six were British subjects from Hong Kong – who were travelling third class, due to sail from New York to Cuba. All eight men managed to make it into lifeboats but only six – Ah Lam, Bing Lee, Fang Lang, Chip Chang, Foo Cheang and Ling Hee – survived the disaster, and their arrival in New York was far from welcome.
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