On 11 December 1937 the Dollar Steamship Company luxury ocean liner ran aground in a typhoon on a reef at Zhongliao Bay. All 503 passengers and 330 crew survived and were safely brought ashore. Over the next few days the cargo liners SS "President McKinley" and SS "President Pierce" took the survivors off the island, helped by boats provided by the and an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer. Dollar Lines sold "President Hoover"s wreck to a Japanese salvage company, which spent the next three years breaking her up "in situ".