The Ourang Medan might have been involved in smuggling operations of chemical substances such as a combination of potassium cyanide and nitroglycerine or even wartime stocks of nerve agents. Soon after, the Ourang Medan was witnessed exploding before finally sinking. 4 cargo-hold, forcing the boarding party to hastily evacuate the doomed Dutch freighter, thus preventing any further investigations to be carried out. Just as the ship was to be prepared for a tow by the Silver Star to a nearby port, a fire then suddenly broke out in the ship's No. No survivors were located and no visible signs of injuries on the dead bodies were observed. When the Silver Star crew eventually located and boarded the apparently-undamaged Ourang Medan in an attempt at a rescue, the ship was found littered with corpses (including the carcass of a dog) everywhere, with the dead bodies found sprawled on their backs, the frozen (and allegedly badly-frightened) faces of the deceased upturned to the sun above with mouths gaping open and eyes staring straight ahead, with the corpses resembling horrible caricatures. They were "I die." Then, after that chilling message, there was nothing more heard of.
Probably whole of crew dead * * *." A few confused dots and dashes (of Morse code) later, two words came through clearly. All officers including the captain, dead in chartroom and on the bridge. A radio operator aboard the troubled vessel sent the following message in Morse code: "S.O.S. The SS Ourang Medan was a supposed ghost ship which, according to various sources, became a shipwreck in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) in the Straits of Malacca waters, or elsewhere, after its entire crew had died under suspicious circumstances, either in 1947 or 1948, depending on the newspaper source.Īccording to the story, at some point of time in or around June 1947, two American vessels navigating the Straits of Malacca, the City of Baltimore and the Silver Star, among others passing by, picked up several distress messages from the nearby Dutch merchant ship Ourang Medan.
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