The photos of the Taipo Belle helped solve a little mystery for Elizabeth Ride. She explains:
My father [Sir Lindsay Ride] was tied up in Kukong (HQ of the VIIth War Zone, which covered Kwangtung) in the early months of the war trying to sort out all the permissions etc needed from the host country, China, to set up a British military unit in this area. He had intended to move his HQ forward to Waichow, but upon the escape from [Sham Shui Po] of Douglas Clague and party, he decided to send Clague forward to Waichow to open an Advanced Headquarters there while he continued his negotiations.
Communications between them were hampered by the fact that, "incredible as it may seem for a long time the Central Government in Chungking would not grant us permission to use either W/T or ciphers. Our signals had to go in clear over the Chinese telegraph. Between HQ and AHQ we had to resort to a personal code". This code was hastily made up between Clague and Ride before Clague left Kukong for Waichow, and places in HK were given code names.
Taipo was condenamed 'Bella', which I thought must refer to a person until I heard of the Taipo Belle, when the connection clicked.
You may be interested to know that many of the HK sites were given the code names of people's homes. Before the war, as you probably know, houses were known as 'so-and-so's house' as often as by a road number. So the code has Waterfall Bay as 'Guiness House' , West Bay as 'Johns House', Mt. Davis as 'Jocks House', Pinewood as 'Heaths House', and Sai Wan as 'Alecs House'. We also have Kai Tak as 'Kenneth' and Kam Tin aerodrome as 'Kenneths Younger Brother' (I think there was a Kenneth who was a keen amateur flier wasnt there?), Shek-O as 'Turner', Tytam Reservoir as 'Tucker'.