Jejak sejarah dari Tek Sing's Cargo
Baby Doll Tek Sing Cargo
Tinggi 7 cm. Rp.875.000,-
Sailing from the port of Amoy (now Xiamen in Fujian, People's Republic of China), the Tek Sing was bound for Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia) laden with a large cargo of porcelain goods and 1600 Chinese immigrants. After a month of sailing, the Tek Sing's captain, Io Tauko, decided to attempt a shortcut through the Gaspar Strait between the Bangka-Belitung Islands, and ran aground on a reef. The junk sank in about 100 feet of water.
The next morning, February 7, an English East Indiaman captained by James Pearl sailing from Indonesia to Borneo
passed through the Gaspar Strait. The ship encountered debris from the
sunk Chinese vessel and an enormous number of survivors. The English
ship managed to rescue about 190 of the survivors. Another 18 persons
were saved by a wangkang, a small Chinese junk captained by Jalang Lima. This Chinese vessel may have been sailing in tandem with the Tek Sing, but had avoided the reefs.
