The Malacca Weekly Chronicle from the 19th of January 1889 reported the following: “That navigation in the Straits of Malacca is attended with difficulties and dangers of no mean order is fully borne out by the sad history of the past few years. One more collision, disastrous in its consequences, has just been added to the already too long list of casualties in Malayan waters…”
Please note that we were not able to find a picture of either ship and therefore we selected a picture of the Port of Singapore around the correct time period.
Ship Name: Pyah Pekhet
Year Built: 1875
Tonnage: 319
Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamer
Nationality: British Singapore
Year Wrecked: 1889
Location Wrecked: Near the Entrance of Klang Strait
Reason for Wreck: Collision with the Chow Phya
Lives Lost: 14
Sources:
https://hhtandn.org/notes/399/chow-phya-general-history
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singdailytimes18780316-1.2.7
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18901029-1.2.15?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890119-1.2.3?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890208-1.2.18
https://books.google.com/books?id=1TUSAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=pyah+pekhet+ship&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://www.marhisdata.nl/docs/_docs/9277-Chow-Phya--1858--aanvaring.pdf
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890122-1.2.7?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18890202-1.2.22?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18890204-1.2.22?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://books.google.com/books?id=qqDhrLBNZrkC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=burmah+steamship+line+pyah&source=gbs_navlinks_s
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890629-1.2.11.1?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18890219-1.2.13?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/malaccawkchronicle18890119-1.2.9?qt=pyah,%20pekhet&q=pyah%20pekhet
