PETALING JAYA: Steamer SS Amherst had sailed from Singapore before it reportedly ran aground on a sandbar in Sungai Pahang on Nov 17, 1901.
This was stated in a report titled “Findings and Order of a Marine Court of Inquiry held at the Marine Court in Singapore on Dec 17, 1901, to investigate the circumstances attending the stranding of the British steamship Amherst”.
