page_title: China Navigation Company
section_title: Notable former vessels
hierarchical_section_title: China Navigation Company / Notable former vessels
caption_attribution_description: English: The steamship Anshun lying on her side in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea, where she was sunk by Japanese warships.
context_page_description: The China Navigation Company. Pte. Ltd. is registered in Singapore, with parent entity - The China Navigation Company Limited, trading brands as Swire Shipping & Swire Bulk, is a merchant shipping company based in Singapore. It is part of the Swire group, formerly John Swire and Sons.
  CNCo was founded by John Samuel Swire to offer paddle steamer services on the Yangtze River. By the early 1870s John Samuel Swire was convinced that there was an opening for increased steam shipping on the Yangtze River and as he was unable to interest other shipping companies, such as Alfred Holt and Company in undertaking this expansion he decided to establish a new company for this. The China Navigation Company was formed in London in 1872 with a capital of £360,000 chiefly put up by John Samuel Swire and WH Swire with Alfred Holt, Rathbone's, TH Ismay, RN Dale, John Scott, T Barlow and William Imrie and T&J Harrison supplying additional money.
context_section_description: SS Anhui (3,494 GRT built 1925 was one of only three large vessels, the others being Coast Farmer and Dona Nati, to actually deliver supplies early in the Pacific war to the Philippines from Australia arriving in Cebu City on 20 March 1942. Anhui later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-6 from 4 March 1942—September or December 1945.)
  MV Anshun
  MS Changsha
  SS Hanyang (2,876 GRT built 1940 was involved in early Pacific war efforts to supply the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies from Australia and later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-8 from 24 March 1942—August 1945.)
  MV Eredine  (sold)
  MV Erradale
  SS Shengking
  SS Shuntien (sunk by enemy action)
  MV Soochow  (also known as Maersk Asia Decimo)
  MS Taiyuan
  SS Wang Phu
  SS Wu Chang
  MV Wulin
  SS Yochow (2,810 GRT built 1938 was involved in early Pacific war efforts to supply the Philippines and Netherlands East Indies from Australia and later operated under U.S. Army control as part of the Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet as X-7 from 11 April 1942—December 1945.)
caption: Anshun lying on her side in Milne Bay, New Guinea 1942.
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