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Launched by J.&K. Smit’s Scheepswerven N.V., Kinderdijk, Netherlands with yard number 682 on15 September 1917, delivered to owner/manager Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij N.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands on 18 December 1917 and sold to be broken up begin 1959, which was executed at Hamburg, Germany.
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 Boston, USA in July 1942.
Armed with 3-2m guns supplied at New York on 26 October 1942.
Armed wit h1-4”/BL Mk. IX gun supplied at Durban, South Africa on 8 April 1940.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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