Taiping was packed to nearly twice her rated capacity carrying over 1.000 refugees fleeing advancing Chinese Communist forces during the Chinese Civil War, when she departed Shanghai on 26 January 1949 bound for Keelung, Taiwan. (27 January 1949)
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Dale Dike Reservoir
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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Friday 11th of March 1864 (x) — . The reservoir was being filled for the first time. The immediate cause was a crack in the embankment but the source of the crack was never determined.