Old shipwreck raises interest


Mystery emerges: Children playing near the shipwreck in Sungai Pahang.

PEKAN: The discovery of an old shipwreck in Sungai Pahang here can help answer the mystery behind the sinking of SS Amherst during its last voyage in 1901, says the National Heritage Department.

The department’s Eastern Zone director Mohd Shukri Mohd Isa said its officers were working to find out more about the wreckage, which included a funnel, anchor rope, propeller and engine combustion chamber that were characteristic of ships of the 1900s.

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