... we could see it was the Ourang Medan. There was no sign of life on the quarter deck and no reply to our shouts through megaphone. Dead: No Wound* We launched two lifeboats with eight men each and rowed across to the Ourang Medan and boarded her , Bodies ...

... signal, 'SOS from the steamship Ourang Medan. Beg ships with short wave wireless get touch doctor. our short wave set we relayed the call for help. Medical stations Germany. Rome and France replied We informed the Ourang Medan and asked her transmit her request ...

... Strange to relate By Frank Edwards RESCUE PARTIES FOUND SHIP’S CREW ALL DEAD SOME’I‘HING was menacing the Dutch steamship Ourang Medan as she beat her way through the Straits of Malacca one February morning in 1948. The ship flashed a series of frantic distress ...