The Terrible Death of the Tek Sing (1822)

The Tek Sing, one of the large ocean going Junks that had once dominated China’s trade with the world, was one of the few remaining as terrible instability brought on by the importation of Opium rocked China’s economy. Overloaded and overcrowded the captain turned to the Gaspar Strait as a short cut to get them quickly to Dutch Batavia. Short cuts often come with a cost, but in this case the cost was unusually high, and estimated 1,600 to 1,800 lives. Ship Name: Tek Sing (True Star) Tonnage: Around 1000 tons Port of Origin: Amoy, China Ship Type:Ocean Going Chinese Junk Sank: 1822 Reason For Sinking: Struck the rocks of Kar Belvidere Lives Lost: Estimated from 1,600 to 1,800 Sources: https://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/wap/silkRoad/content.do?contextId=13428&frontParentCatalogId=229&frontCatalogId=231 http://www.koh-antique.com/discovery/teksing1.html https://fr.unesco.org/silkroad/node/9007 http://english.scio.gov.cn/in-depth/2019-08/14/content_75098407.htm https://m-blog-naver-com.translate.goog/PostView.naver?isHttpsRedirect=true&blogId=cytchoi&logNo=221706404585&_x_tr_sl=ko&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc https://www.nauticalia.com/treasures-of-the-tek-sing-true-star/ https://www.antiquities.co.uk/collections/tek-sing-shipwreck-pottery/ https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkMLnmRa0zEC&pg=PA255&lpg=PA255&dq=indiana+saves+tek+sing&source=bl&ots=cxWJ_55JCH&sig=ACfU3U1DmQtMoqdt8STSPbQUtTPP4n3MsA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimls2tn5r4AhUhhIkEHY9JCooQ6AF6BAgrEAM#v=onepage&q=indiana%20saves%20tek%20sing&f=false https://mfame.guru/tek-sing-the-titanic-of-the-east/