December 3
Dec 3
SS Kiangya explosion
On December 3, 1948 the passenger steamship SS Kiangya struck a mine and sank in the Yangtze estuary near Shanghai, killing an uncertain but likely several thousand of the mostly civilian passengers as they fled the chaos of the Chinese Civil War.
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