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 | | She was a sister ship of the boat, not a sister ship of the mountain. |
 | | "Tai Mo Shan" the boat was, rather exceptionally, built by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, who, with the Taikoo Dock Company eventually merged to form Hong Kong United Dockyards, and she remains the only yacht to have been built by them. |
 | | I'm pretty sure that "Tzu Hang", along with another larger but similar boat, name not to hand, which acquired fame in the 1930's by going through a typhoon, singlehanded,on passage HK/Singapore (owned by an Air Force officer, IIRC) was built by the A. King yard, which finally closed early in the 1990's. |
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