Execution of the pirates of the steamer 'Namoa'
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Do01-61
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University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Do01-61. Prisoners awaiting execution, including pirates, on either 17 April or 11 May 1891, at Kowloon, Hong Kong. Some of the pirates executed by the Chinese authorities on those occasions were the men who had seized the steamer 'Namoa' on 10 December 1890 as it steamed from Hong Kong. The pirates killed the captain, one crew member and one passenger, a Chinese Customs lightkeeper, and plundered the ship. See also Do01-60, Do01-62, Os03-047, Pe01-004, DH-s138 and Wr-s095
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