May 6, 1902: Disaster struck early in the 20th century when the SS Camorta sank in the Gulf of Martaban
off Burma (present day Myanmar). The ship was owned by the British India Steam Navigation Co. and sailed
from Madras (Chennai), India bound for Rangoon, Burma with 739 people on board. She was built in 1880 in
Scotland at A&J Inglis and was 285' long with a gross registered tonnage of only 2,119.

She departed Madras in April and on the 6th while in the Gulf of Martaban she sailed into a storm. What
happened onboard nobody knows because all of the 650 passengers and 89 crew were lost with the ship. This
was the worst disaster to date in the very young 20th century, and almost no one even knows it happened.