The wreckage of the SS Kiangya is seen in December, 1948.
Packed with refugees from the Chinese civil war, this passenger steamship likely hit a mine left behind from World War II. The Kiangya exploded and quickly sank in the mouth of the Huangpu River, fifty miles south of Shanghai. The ship’s manifest listed 2,150 passengers, despite an official capacity of 1,186, but there were almost certainly many more stowaways on board. As many as 1,000 people were picked up by other vessels, but 3,920 are thought to have died.