The Straits Times Weekly Issues from the first of June, 1887, reported the proceedings of the Marine Court of Inquiry against Captain Harrison of the Fair Penang. The witness was Mate Farquharson of the Bentan: “Cross-examination continued, -- I cannot say that if we continued on our respective courses we should have passed without collision. We were meeting end on -- I cannot say if the other ship was a little to our side or another. No one when he sees the three lights of a steamer is allowed to do otherwise than take it that she is coming on right ahead.”Ship Name: Bentan 

Year Built: 1872

Tonnage: 340

Ship Type: Single Screw Steamship 

Nationality: Singapore 

Year Wrecked: 1887

Location Wrecked: Near Batu Pahat

Reason for Wreck: Ship Collision 

Lives Lost: Estimated to be Around 100

Sources: 

https://books.google.com/books?id=7N9XEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=Bentan+singapore+ship+1887&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870601-1.2.40?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870513-1.2.12?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870405-1.2.14?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870713-1.2.28?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes18871029-1.2.24?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/stweekly18870720-1.2.12?qt=bentan,%20fair,%20penang&q=bentan%20fair%20penang

https://books.google.com/books?id=ckQAAAAAMAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=bentan+fair+penang+1887&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870510-1.2.12

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/pinangazette18870405-1.2.13

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39530729/2932006