page_title: SS Kiangya
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: SS Kiangya / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 江亚轮木舵,摄于宁波庆安会馆 English: The refurbished wooden steering wheel of the SS Jiangya or Kiangya, which was sunk by a mine in the Huangpu River in Shanghai en route to Ningbo in 1948 in China's greatest maritime disaster. It was later recovered and repaired. The wheel is now preserved at the East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs and Folk Customs Museum in central Ningbo.
context_page_description: SS Kiangya or Jiangya was a Chinese passenger steamship that was destroyed in an explosion near the mouth of the Huangpu River 50 miles north of Shanghai on 3 or 4 December 1948. Her wreck was cleared from the channel in 1956 and her hull refurbished, re-entering service. She was renamed the SS Dongfang Hong 8 during the Cultural Revolution and retired during modernisations in 1983.
  The Kiangya was one of eight ships operated by the Shanghai Merchants Group and the sister ship of the SS Kiangking. She had a displacement of 2,100 tons. At the time of her explosion during the Chinese Civil War, she was bound for Ningpo from Shanghai's Shiliupu Dock. She was packed with refugees fleeing the advancing Communists. She probably hit a mine, possibly laid by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War. The exact death toll is unknown. Although her official capacity was 1,186 passengers, the manifest listed 2,150 and she was almost certainly carrying many additional stowaways. Rescuers were unaware of the disaster for some hours. It is thought that between 2,750 and 3,920 died, with 700 survivors being picked up by other vessels.
context_section_description: The ship's wooden steering wheel is preserved at the East Zhejiang Maritime Affairs and Folk Customs Museum in Ningbo.
  The ship gave her name to Jiangya Nansha, one of the component shoals of Jiuduansha off eastern Shanghai.
caption: The recovered wheel of the Kiangya at the EZMAFCM.
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