©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com
Ordered by Rederi A/B Nordstjernan (A.A. Johnson, MGRS.), Stockholm, Sweden in summer 915, laid down by A/S Burmeister & Wain's Maskin-Og Skibsbyggeri , Copenhagen, Denmark with yard number 317 on 5 June 1921, sold summer 1921, launched on 14 September 1921, delivered to manager Firma Wm Ruys & Zonen and owner N.V. Rotterdamsche Lloyd, both at Rotterdam, Netherlands on 10 November 1921, sold to N.V. ‘Holland’, sloopwerf & machinehandel, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands to be broken up in November 1954, resold by the scrapyard after rebuilding to manager Bogdan Pusich, Aarau, Switzerland, owner Cargo Shipping S.A., Panama, Panama R.P., Panama-flagged and renamed Havana in 1955, laid up at Antwerp, Belgium in 1960 and broken up at Ghent 1961.
According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673sent 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 4-2cm guns supplied at New York on 4 March 1943.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
No comments:
Post a Comment