The Straits Times on the 11th of July, 1911 reported the following news from the local magistrate’s court: “The full charge was that, on or about June 9, within the Settlement of Singapore, dangerous petroleum was loaded under deck on the steam vessel Karang, a vessel which was not constructed for the carriage of petroleum in bulk and which had not the confining bulkhead of the cargo holds constructed for iron or steel…”
Please note that the image in our thumbnail is not the Karang, no image exists of the Karang that we could find. It is instead the Victoria Dock in Tanjong Pagar in the 1890s. The Karang sank near Tanjong Pagar.
Ship Name: Karang
Ship Built: 1875
Ship Nationality: Singapore
Ship Type: Steam Powered Iron Hulled Packet Ship
Ship Wrecked: 1911
Location Wrecked: About 3/4ths of a mile from Tanjong Pagar Singapore
Reason for Wreck: Fire in the cargo hold
Lives Lost: None
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