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Tuesday, 8 May 2012

Call signs of Dutch merchant ships with as homeport Surinam in 1917

The Dutch departments of Agriculture, Industry and Trade and Navy published a list of the Dutch war- and merchant ships including the so-called Gouvernementsmarine which was active in the Dutch East Indies. The list I used was published by J.H. de Bussy at Amsterdam and was kept update until 1 January 1917.

TMDK=Carmen Leonore, schooner, net capacity 356.63 cubic metres or 126.33 tons
TMPE=Lottie E. Toppin, schooner, net capacity 96.97 cubic metres or 33.95 tons
TMPV=Luciana, schooner, net capacity 89.31 cubic metres or 31.56 tons
In tons of 2.83 cubic metres