Torpedoed and partially sunk military launch, Shanghai Bund, 1937

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JM03-104. Buildings in the background, from left to right: The Russo-China Bank (No 15 The Bund), The Bank of Taiwan (No 16 The Bund), The North China Daily News Building (No 17 The Bund), The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China (No 18 The Bund). The sunken boat is supposed to be a launch from a military ship built by John I Thornycroft & Co, that tried, and failed, to blow up the Japanese cruiser, Izumo.