Posted by Ian Welch on December 18, 1999 at 19:12:57:
In Reply to: ship General GORDON from Shanghi, China to SF 1948 posted by Deborah Richardson on July 05, 1999 at 17:22:28:
Are you sure it was US military. General Gordon was a famous British officer who assisted in crushing Taiping in China. Subsequently went to Sudan where he was killed. Plenty of books about him. More likely that the ship was either a British vessel or a Chinese owned ship with Chinese crew but British captain.