Breaker point

SWATOW. About the 1st of this month, the British barque Sally, Captain Tait, on her voyage from Newchang to, this port, became a total wreck, eight miles N.E. from Cupchi Point. On the 4th, the second mate of the vessel arrived here overland and reported the ship ashore at Breaker Point; in consequence of which H.B.M.’s gunboat Hart left on the Sth, and having gone along the Coast past Breaker Point to Tungoa Road, without seeing anything of the wreck, returned on the 6th.

We had been dashing along before the gale at fully eleven knots an hour, when we went upon some unknown rock off Breaker Point—a projecting headland some sixty miles south of Swatow—so the terrible force with which we struck may easily be imagined.

According to Mr. Hsu Lin-chen, Chief Officer of the Flying Dragon, Communist soldiers at Breaker Point, about 25 miles to the South West of Swatow on the coast, shot up flares which lit a wide area of the sea when his ship was steaming towards the West.

Lease-lend had been terminated within a few weeks of the Japanese surrender, but as far as we in Hong Kong knew other Anglo-American agreements were still in force. An unusual case cropped up when an American Liberty, the Josiah Nelson Cushing, ran ashore at Breaker Point near Swatow, while in ballast. I wondered what an American vessel was doing in the area but sent the King Salvor and Prince Salvor to her assistance.

At the 1883 International Fisheries Exhibition in London, the Customs-organized Chinese display included a model of the 120-foot iron tower for Breaker Point, south of Shantou, and 'a chart showing the Lights on the coast of China', which Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone 'seemed to be much struck with'.