Hong Kong Maritime Museum

This guide to the Hong Kong Maritime Museum follows the Keying, an eight-hundred-ton Chinese trading junk that British investors bought in eighteen forty-six to sail to London as a curiosity for the Victorian public. You'll hear how a voyage the thirty Chinese sailors signed on for as a short trip to Singapore instead rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Atlantic, and drew crowds in New York before reaching the Thames, and about the famous visitors, including Charles Dickens, who came aboard. The guide also follows what became of the unpaid crew once they were a world from home. Stand at the pier's edge, where the harbor the Keying slipped from still opens out before you.