In 1883 "Kaisow" passed the eruption of Krakatoa. Second mate on "Kaisow" was Harry Davis, who went onto be a captain himself, wrote a very graphic account of the experience. He described how Captain John Gadd sailed the ship down the Straits, braced sharp up, how the ship weathered the erupting island and so got into the open water and felt the tail end of a huge tidal wave which tore north up the Straits, overwhelming the two sides, wiping out the town of Anjur and killing some 30,000 people.