An item dated reported that the third tanker of the Dutch shipping company O.F. “Insulinde” namely the Streefland was sold to Norway to be used for the whaling industry. The transfer was to be in April 1925.
The newspaper De Indische Courant dated 3 January confirmed the sale but provided more details. Earlier she reported that the tankers India and California of the Oliefabrieken Insulinde were sold to England to be used in the molasses transport.(1) In the past they made some voyages to transport topper oil out of the Dutch East Indies. Now was the third ship sold to the Vestfold Kompagni of Sandefjord, Norway although still standing on stocks. She was named B. Streefland after the first director of the company and who died in the USA. (2) She was to be fitted out for the whaling industry.
Notes
1. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 16 July 1921 published the annual account of the Oliefabrieken Insulinde over 1920. The two tankers made in 1950 five journeys while transporting 55.862 tons of oil. The high costs and the very disappointing in the progress of building the B. Streefland resulted in negotiations to cancel the building contract. In autumn 1928 was decided to built her. The India and California and both a deadweight of 10,280 tons and the B. Streefland circa 13.800 tons. In the first half of 1920 was the India intensively modernized including the possibility to use oil as fuel. The book value of both ships was in 1920 decreased with ƒ 1.315.021. On 31 December 1920 were they both valued for a medium of ƒ 343.54 per ton. The costs for the B. Streefland in 1920 were ƒ 1.083.397.
In the edition of the newspaper Het Vaderland dated 31 December 1921 was account published dealing with the Dutch shipbuilding industry in 1921. The India of 7,338 gross tons and the California of 7,339 gross tons were both laid up with the order for the building of the 7,500 tons Streefland by a shipyard at Dordrecht was cancelled.
The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 7 April 1925 reported that the Streefland was renamed Pedr Bogen (23, the India Atheltarn and the California in Atheltrill. The latter two ships were said to measure more as 7,000 tons. The new owner (Pure Cane Molasses Company of Liverpool) wanted to load these ships one a month. She was apparently represented in the Dutch East Indies by the Dutch firm N.V. Handelmaatschappij voorheen Krootens&Co. at Amsterdam.
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2. The evening edition of the newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 21 January 1919 reported his death at San Francisco calling him the agent in the Dutch East Indies of the Oliefabrieken Insulinde. Boudewijn Streefland was the driving power behind the N.V. Oliefabrieken Insulinde established on 1 January 1913. His death was caused by the Spanish Flu (-influenza).
