The bulk of ceramics were Chinese blue-and-white common tableware, consisting of bowls, tea cups and the like, made in the kilns of Dehua, China. Hatcher's crew raised about 350,000 pieces of the ship's cargo in what is described as the largest sunken cache of Chinese porcelain ever recovered. On May 12, 1999, British marine salvor Michael Hatcher discovered the wreck of the Tek Sing in an area of the South China Sea north of Java, east of Sumatra and south of Singapore. This Chinese vessel may have been sailing in tandem with the Tek Sing, but had avoided the reefs. Another 18 persons were saved by a wangkang, a small Chinese junk captained by Jalang Lima.
The English ship managed to rescue about 190 of the survivors. The ship encountered debris from the sunk Chinese vessel and an enormous number of survivors. The next morning, February 7, the English East Indiaman Indiana, captained by James Pearl and sailing from Indonesia to Borneo, passed through the Gaspar Strait. The junk sank in about 30 metres (98.43 ft) of water. After a month of sailing, the Tek Sing's captain, Io Tauko, decided to attempt a shortcut through the Gaspar Strait between the Bangka-Belitung Islands, and ran aground on a reef. Sailing from the port of Amoy (now Xiamen in Fujian, China), the Tek Sing was bound for Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia) laden with a large cargo of porcelain goods and 1,600 Chinese immigrants. 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". The ship was manned by a crew of 200 and carried approximately 1600 passengers. Its tallest mast was estimated to be 90 feet (27.43 m) in height.
The vessel was 50 meters in length, 10 meters wide and had a burthen of about a thousand tons. She was a large three- masted Chinese ocean-going junk which sank on Februin an area of the South China Sea known as the Belvidere Shoals. The Tek Sing is an exception." Generally, shipwrecks are named either after a landmark or location near where they were found or the cargo they held. The Tek Sing ( Chinese, "True Star") is one of the few "Asian vessels discovered in Southeast Asia "generally neither name nor date is known.
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