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English: This is a photo of the 3,500 ton freighter "Skyluck", which had smuggled 3,200 Vietnamese refugees to the Philippines and then Hong Kong. On 29 June 1979, after 4 months in the Hong Kong harbour, the passengers cut the anchor chain the "Skyluck" drifted aground on Lamma Island.
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Source Photo obtained from my father in law Van Su, who was a refugee on the ship "Skyluck" depicted.
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This photo was given to my father in law in the UNHCR camp in Hong Kong in 1979, by an unknown person.

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The freighter "Skyluck" aground on Lamma Island, Hong Kong, 1979.

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29 June 1979

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