Hai Min and Kiang Foo

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To commemorate the 85th anniversary of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek on the island of Formosa (Taiwan) issued a set of three stamps in December, 1957 These show the latest motorship in the company's service, the Hai Min and one of the firm's early river paddle-steamers, the Kiang Foo. So finely engraved are these designs by Pao Liang-yu of the China Engraving and Printing Works at Taipeh that it is possible to read with a glass the name on the paddle-box.
The Kiang Foo was built in 1874 at Shanghai and engined by M. Coryell as the Nankin. Of 2,330 gross tons, she had dimensions 295 ft. 6 in. x 50 ft. with a draft of 11 ft. 6 in. The Hal Min, built in Japan in 1957 by the Nippon Kai Jyuko K.K. at Toyama, is a vessel of 7,700 gross tons, driven by a 7-cylinder Sulzer marine oil engine built by the Uraga Diesel Kogyo of Tamashina. She is registered at Keelung. Formosa.
SG265, 266 and 267. Sea Breezes 7/58

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KIANG FOO.
As NANKIN was she owned by Shanghai SN Co.
1877 Sold to China Merchants S.N. Co. Ltd. and renamed KIANG FOO.
First quarter of 1925 broken up.

HAI MIN launched under that name 25 May 1957.
Built for China Merchants SN Co.Ltd., Keeling, Taiwan.
August 1957 completed.
1973 Sold to Yangming Marine Transport Corporation, Keeling, Taiwan and renamed YUNN MING.
1977 Renamed by company in MING UNITY.
17 March 1979 arrived by Lee Chong Steel Co., Kaohsiung for scrapping.

Stamp images and more info is given on: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6692&p=6688&hilit=hai+min#p6688
China Taiwan 1962 $3.60 sg 462, scott?

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Update KIANG FOO.

1874 built as a paddle-steamer by A.G. Lambert & Miers Coryell for Shanghai SN Co, Shanghai.
Her frames were constructed by T.F Rowland’s Continental Iron Works, Greenpoint.
Her engine was from the CHEKIANG built-in 1862.
26 March 1873 launched as the NANKING.

01 March 1877 sold to China Merchants SN Co, Shanghai and renamed in KIANG FOO.
First-quarter of 1925 broken up.

Source: Beancaker to Boxboat by H.W. Dick & S.A. Kentwell