According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673 sent by the office of armament the Royal Netherlands Navy located at 41 East 42nd Street, New York 17, USA. There were no complete records available, so there were several sources used to compile the list. Sometimes the kind of guns gave indirect information regarding the origin such as 4”/BL and 12 pounder guns were British mostly supplied in the United Kingdom, Canada or Curacao. The 4.7” guns were old Japanese guns placed on some vessels in the begin of the war at Singapore and some 4” guns in the same period at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The trade in which the ship was used gave also an indication were the guns were supplied, for example involved in the Pacific trade means supplied at the West Coast.
Armed with 2-2cm guns supplied at New York on 6 April 1942
Armed with 6-2cm guns supplied at Baltimore on 25 November 1942
Armed with 1-10,16cm/4” 50 Mk. 12 gun
Cargo-passenger ship laid down by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 144 for account of N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 29 October 1927, launched on 11 August 1928, delivered on 4 December 1928 and underway from Bombay, British Indies towards Baltimore and New York, USA via the Panama Canal torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 759 in the Caribbean near Jamaica on 6 July 1943. Call sign PQJN and after 1934 PGTX. Speed 15 knots with an oil fuelled 2-stroke singe-acting 7.040 bhp Sulzer machinery. Gross tonnage 9.251,00 tons, net tonnage 5.657,00 tons, deadweight 10.794,00 tons, grain capacity 643.645 cubic feet, bale capacity 556.236 cubic feet and and dimensions 149,36 x 18,59 x 11,20 metres.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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