The Tek Sing (Chinese, "True Star"), a large three-masted Chinese ocean-going junk, sinks on February 6, 1822, in a shoal of the South China Sea between Sumatra and Borneo.
The vessel is fifty meters in length, ten meters wide, and weighs about a thousand tons.
Its tallest mast is estimated to be ninety feet in height.
The ship is manned by a crew of two hundred and has approximately sixteen hundred passengers.
The great loss of life associated with the sinking has led to the Tek Sing being referred to in modern times as the "Titanic of the East".
