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blossom, the national flower of the ROC, and Tung Group was considered the national merchant shipping company of the ROC. However, when the OOCL experienced financial trouble after his death, the government of the
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Mr. Tung was one of the founding fathers of shipboard education—the practice of turning vessels into floating universities that carry students from one port to the next, from one experience to the next.
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in Hong Kong on the eve of her inaugural voyage. Tung did not give up on the plan because of this setback, and bought a smaller ocean liner,
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At the peak of his career, he owned a shipping fleet with over 150 freight ships; his fleet's cargo capacity exceeded 10 million tons.
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Tung accumulated his fleet of ships over the next few years. In 1959, he built the largest tanker in the world, the 70,000 tonne
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in 1949, and diversified his investments in Hong Kong with the companies Maritime Transport Limited, the
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train maritime specialists. On 9 January 1972, the ship caught fire during refurbishing and sank into
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Politically, Tung was aligned with Kuomintang regime of the Republic of China (ROC) on
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Tung believed in the importance of education. In September 1970, he bought the former
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rescued the company. This paved the way for Tung's son, Tung Chee-hwa, to become the
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