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Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies

Stephen Davies has been in Hong Kong on and off since 1947. He served in the British Royal Navy and Royal Marines, taught at the University of Hong Kong and from 1990, with his partner Elaine Morgan, spent 15 years sailing 50,000 miles in a 38-foot yacht, working as a yachting journalist and pilot book writer to keep the ship in shackles. In 2005, he returned to full-time work, opening and running the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, in Stanley. In 2013, he returned to HKU, where he researches Hong Kong’s maritime past.

Japanese sailor Kenichi Horie is regarded as being the first person to sail solo across the North Pacific from west to east, in 1962, but credit should arguably go to Brian Platt, a Hong Kong-born Briton who made the journey in 1959

How stories about the Mon Lei, which served several owners in its lifetime, including Robert Ripley of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! fame, took on a life of their own

What links a bolt hammered into a granite block in 1866 to the fight against the slave trade, an eminent naval architect and height measurements for every high point and high-rise in Hong Kong?

Ahead of news that a new Royal Navy ship is to be called HMS Tamar, we take a look at the other ships that bore that name and what they meant to Hong Kong

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It’s surprising how much people get wrong about HMS Tamar, the British naval ship that was anchored in Victoria Harbour for 44 years and after which the onshore depot, now site of government HQ, was named