![]() 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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