Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Bashi Channel.
The position of Swatow at a point opposite the Bashee Channel renders it pecularly exposed to typhoons, the principal range of which is in this narrow seaway.
1878, Alexander George Findlay, A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, 2nd edition, Richard Holmes Laurie, page 10113 more examples
A strong north-easterly current had been experienced since coming through the Bashee channel, and we were happy to find the ship well to windward on making the land.
1837 September, S. Wells Williams, “Narrative of a voyage of the ship Morrison, captain D. Ingersoll, to Lewchew and Japan, in the months of July and August, 1837”, in The Chinese Repository, volume VI, number V, Canton, page 212April and May were spent in the ports of French Indo-China, where Rojdestvensky was given a final reinforcement. Then, on 14 May, he embarked on the final leg of his passage before the inevitable clash with the Japanese. He used the Bashee Channel between Formosa and the Philippines, and headed for Shanghai.
1963, Oliver Warner, Great Sea Battles, →ISBN, page 245A community in Pingtung county in southern Taiwan refused to allow a group of Japanese honor the memory of Japanese soldiers killed in the Bashee Channel during World War II.
1982 September 5, “ROC deplores Japan's history revision”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIII, number 35, Taipei, page 2
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