The MV Anshun was a 3,188 GRT motor vessel built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Greenock in 1930 for The China Navigation Company for the Chinese coastal passenger service. [2]

Anshun: Taikoo Dockyard Hong Kong. 1951. Tonnage: 6,160 GRT. Length: 418ft – 127.4m. Breath: 57ft – 17.3m. Propulsion: 4 cylinder Doxford Diesels – Anshun’s was built by Tailoo HKG.

In ten weeks up to the end of the Battle of Milne Bay Australian destroyers and corvettes, particularly HMAS Swan, Warrego and Colac, escorted 36 supply ships to Milne Bay. One of these, the SS Anshun, was sunk there by Imperial Japanese Navy ships Tenryu and Arashi on the night of 6 September 1942.

The MV Anshun was a 3,188 GRT motor vessel built by Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Limited, Greenock in 1930 for The China Navigation Company for the Chinese coastal passenger service.[2] With the outbreak of World War II, the Anshun was requisitioned by the Admiralty as a stores...

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On the right is the SS Anshun sunk and laying on her side in shallow water since she was sunk by Japanese naval gun fire. The pontoon jetty may be seen in the centre, Milne Bay, New Guinea.

The pontoon wharf and hulk of the SS Anshun sunk by Japanese naval gun fire, Milne Bay, New Guinea..

This is the wharf that was used when visiting them. These are pearling luggers commandeered by the Army and used for eight day cruises for personel recovering from Malaria and other misfortunes. With a native to man the boat they were a wonderful tonic. The cargo vessel SS Anshun was shelled and sunk at Gili Gili wharf by the Japanese.

A complete listing of all Blue Riband record holders, Commencing with the 1937 built steel hulled steamship SS Sirus in 1938, to the great SS United States achieved her great feat in July 1952 and she is still afloat today and has recently been obtained by the SS United States Conservancy.

Especially when it is remembered that the Signal Station at Gili Gili, in Milne Bay, was in a rough tin hut erected precariously upon the branch of a tree hanging out over the water’s edge adjacent to the area where the steamer SS Anshun lay on its side after Japanese attack.