Breaker Point

English thumb|Map including Breaker Point (1816) (bottom left) Proper noun Breaker Point en obsolete en point city/Shantou p/Guangdong c/China. en November 25, 1875 Outports. North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1875.11.25/ Shanghai XV 446 311405954 520 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1875.11.25/page/520/ 2 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. en 1882 Augustus F. Lindley Caught by Chinese Rebels A Cruise in Chinese Waters. Being the Log of "The Fortuna." https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225703/ 4th w:Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co 2823704 144–145 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023225703/page/n157/ 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. en August 30, 1950 Reds tightening security measures along coast w:China Mail 34679 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19500830/ 12488501 2 https://archive.org/details/NPCM19500830/page/n1/ 6 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. en 1976 W. A. Doust; Peter Black Scrap into Skyscrapers The Ocean on a Plank https://archive.org/details/oceanonplank0000dous/ London Seely, Service & Co. Ltd 0854220887 2524626 112 https://archive.org/details/oceanonplank0000dous/page/112/ 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 List_of_Liberty_ships_(Je–L) 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 RFA King Salvor (A291) King Salvor and RFA Prince Salvor (A292) Prince Salvor to her assistance. en 2016 w:Robert Bickers Coastwise The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 https://books.google.com/books?id=5nnqCgAAQBAJ 9780141983509 1004978207 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'. Translations island in Shantou Chinese: Cantonese: yue Mandarin: cmn Japanese: ja ブリーカー岬 Burīkā Misaki