An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 13th reported that the former dredger Karang now property of the firm Geary at Singapore on the 12th just outside the harbour of Tandjong Priok, Dutch East Indies hit a sandbank and sunk. Her crew was saved in a lifeboat. She had just undergone repairs during a month by the [British] firm Taylor&Lawson [plant at Batavia, Dutch East Indie?].