return and sink it later. At 16:50, Bugara halted and boarded her ninth contact in just a day, a brand-new 51-gross register ton schooner sailing from Singapore with a cargo of sugar and coffee. The schooner's crew abandoned ship and Bugara sank her with gunfire, not bothering to capture her crew. Bugara made her next contact at 17:30 when her raiding party boarded the 50-gross register ton junk Kian Huat, which was carrying sugar and coffee from Singapore to Champon, Thailand. Kian Huat′s Japanese crew of four abandoned ship, their later fate unknown, and Bugara sank her with gunfire. One hour later, the Japanese crew of the 125-gross register ton schooner Joo Lee Maru, flying the Japanese Rising Sun flag and loaded with a cargo of sugar and miscellaneous stores from Singapore, abandoned ship when Bugara stopped them, and Bugara sank the schooner with gunfire. Bugara then returned to the abandoned coastal cargo ship she had boarded earlier and destroyed it with gunfire. 26 July On 26 July 1945, lookouts on board Bugara sighted three terengganus (junk-rigged schooners) at 03:00, and boarded them all. Two were native vessels from Japanese-occupied British Malaya and carrying cargo of no military value, so Bugara let them go. The other was a 20-gross register ton vessel under Japanese registry, and Bugara sank her, Bugara′s crew noting that the Malayan native crews of the other two terengganus "seemed almost happy to get rid of this one.” At 08:45 that morning, Bugara searched the 144-gross register ton junk Chit Ming Ho Maru, which was bound for Singapore with a cargo of 75 tons of rice, and sank her with gunfire, letting her crew go. At 15:50, Bugara boarded a brand-new 50-gross register ton "sea truck" loaded with drums of aviation gasoline, then set her ablaze with two shell hits, setting her blaze and destroying her; Bugara′s crew last saw the "sea truck′s" Japanese crew jumping overboard and swimming quickly away from her. Bugara next sank a 75-gross register ton schooner loaded with 50 tons of rice and headed for Singapore. At 17:40, she moved into waters as shallow as to stop and sink a 150-gross register ton schooner loaded with 10 cases of cholera antiserum), other medical supplies, scrap iron, and rice. The next small craft Bugara′s crew boarded was an empty 50-gross register ton schooner and, unable to determine her destination, Schade let her pass.