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Samuel Cornell Plant
Samuel Cornell Plant (August 8, 1866 – February 26, 1921) was best known as the first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper Yangtze River in 1900. The Upper Yangtze is the section of river stretching through gorges from Yichang to Chongqing. Plant later collaborated with Chinese merchants and the government to create Sichuan Steam Navigation Company, serving as Captain of ''SS Shutung'' and ''SS Shuhun'', providing the first regular merchant steam service on the Upper Yangtze. He is further recognized for his contributions as Chinese Maritime Customs’ First Senior River Inspector on the Upper Yangtze. Plant installed the river's navigational marks, established signaling systems, wrote a manual for shipmasters, and trained hundreds of foreign and Chinese pilots.〔A.C. Bromfield with Rosemary Lee, “(The Life and Times of Captain Samuel Cornel Plant, Master Mariner and Senior Inspector, Upper Yangtze River, Chinese Maritime Customs ),” ''Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'', Vol. 41 (2001), p. 407. 〕
== Early Life ==
Plant was born in Framlingham, located in Suffolk, England, the third out of four children. His father, Samuel Plant, a Captain in the Mercantile Marine, commanded ''Reigate'', for trade with India. In 1881, young “Cornell” aged fourteen, joined his father for what was to be their first and last voyage together. Captain Sam suffered a heart attack on the journey and fell from his companion ladder, dying shortly after. Young Cornell buried his father upon arrival to India in Madras and continued after his father at sea. He first worked on ''Iron Ship Reigate'' as an ordinary seaman for two years, then a year as an Able Seaman for Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s Australian Service. Plant returned to ''Reigate'' as Third Mate and in 1886 obtained his Second Mate’s certificate.〔Michael Gillam, “(The Making of Cornell Plant the Pilot ),” ''Journal of Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'', Vol. 43 (2003), p. 185 – 189.〕
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