The SS Fatshan Hong Kong-Macao Ferry – Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Posted: February 5th, 2022 | No Comments »

I happened to watch once again the 1955 movie of Han Suyin’s famous novel Love is a Many Splendored Thing – Jennifer Jones as the Han Suyin character and William Holden as ‘Mark Eliot’, her American foreign correspondent love interest (in reality of course it was the Peking-born journalist and son of George Morrison ‘…of China’ fame, Ian – who did die covering the Korean War). Anyhow, being involved in matters Macao history at the moment, this time around i particularly noticed the Fatshan appears briefly.

The Fatshan famously started out in the 1930s as a Hong Kong-Canton ferry, was seized by the Japanese and eventually, in 1971 tragically sunk off Lantau Island with a terrible loss of life. And, in the 1950s, was plying the Hong Kong-Macao ferry route. Love is a Many Splendored Thing is set in 1949, though filmed in 1955.

Anyway, here she is in the movie…

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