A 1886 shipwreck sparked national outrage when European officers left their Asian crew to drown
The tragic sinking of the British ship Normanton in 1886 became a symbol of racial injustice when European officers escaped in lifeboats while leaving all their non-European passengers to perish at sea.
When the British merchant vessel Normanton struck a reef off the Japanese coast in 1886, a scandal erupted that changed international relations. While the British captain and his European crew safely reached the shore in lifeboats, all twenty-five Japanese passengers on board drowned.
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