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Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala (sometimes written 'Nowrojee') was an Indian businessman of Parsi descent in Hong Kong. Early years. He first arrived in Hong Kong in 1852 as a stowaway aboard a ship from Bombay bound for China and was a cook. [1] Career. Founding of the Star Ferry.
Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala arrived in Hong Kong from Bombay in 1852, hidden as a stowaway aboard a ship bound for China. The Portuguese captain who rooted him out was kind enough to permit the young stowaway to remain on board as the ship’s cook.
Jun 24, 2022 · The Morning Star first set sail in 1880, the brainchild of Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, a cook from Mumbai who launched Hong Kong’s first ferry service. Mithaiwala landed in Hong Kong in 1852,...
Apr 19, 2022 · Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, the ferry’s founder, named his first four vessels Morning Star, Evening Star, Rising Star and Guiding Star.
Jul 9, 2020 · Parsee immigrant Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala had a need to transport his bread. He originally acquired a steamboat just to ferry his baked goods—along with himself and his fellow co-workers—between Kowloon and Central.
Oct 1, 2018 · The origins of this century-old commuter service can be traced back to one man: Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, a Parsi cook.
Cross-harbour ferry services were launched in the 1880s, by an entrepreneurial Parsee, Dorabjee Naorojee Mithaiwala, aboard his steamboat, the Morning Star. However, it only in 1898, when British-Armenian businessman Sir Catchick Paul Chater bought the fleet of four vessels, that the Star Ferry Company was born.
