An item reported that on Thursday morning the ms Togian for the Dutch shipping company Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (K.P.M.) would be launched at the shipyard N.V. Werf Gusto v/h Firma A.F. Smulders. The edition dated 11 March reported that her official trial was on Saturday 8 March. She was the first ship of this company fitted out with a so-called Simplex patent-rudder allowing to steer the ship entirely by hand without the use of a steering apparatus. Afterwards handed over to the company.
