Title
Raffles’ account of the loss of the Fame titled “Ship on Fire” reproduced in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction
Year/Period
1830
Region
London
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 21.8 x 13.6 x 0.1 cm
Accession No.
2019-00358
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Tang Holdings Pte Ltd
While establishing the British trading settlement on Singapore in 1819, Raffles was concurrently Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen in Sumatra. When he left Bencoolen in 1824, he chartered an East Indiaman, the Fame, to bring his family, possessions and collections back to England. The ship caught fire and sank on 2 February 1824. This article reproduces Raffles’ own account of the loss.
