Dutch screw steam tanker Sambodja (1911 (1917)-1933

The website www.cnooks.nl dealing with Shell ships supplied the following details. Built in 1911 at the shipyard of Van Vliet&Co., Hardinxveld with yard number 091. In October commissioned as the lighter Skell by Ship Investments UK, since 1912 as the Ban Ho Liong used by Thio Queen Ban at Bandjer Massin and since 1917 until she was broken up in 1933 as the Sambodja by the N.V. Ned. Indische Tank Stoomboot Maatschappij. The triple compound engine supplied 500 hp. Gross register tonnage 824 tons, net register tonnage 480 tons, deadweight 1.175 tons and as dimensions 53,37 x 8,97 x 5,89 metres.

Moorman’s Jaarboek en Scheepvaart en Scheepsbouw edition 1930 supplied the following details. Steel-built screw steam tanker. Capacity 871 gross and 501 net tons and as dimensions 174;8” x 29’5” x 21’4” and a loading capacity of 1.175 tons. International sign TGBC.

The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 23 February 1911 mentioned that at the shipyard De Merwede of the firm Van Vliet&Co, at Hardinxveld the keel was laid down for a steel-built two decks steamship no. 91 of the Swing design with as dimensions 175’0’ x 29’0” x 12’6” x 7’6” for British account. The edition dated 7 July reported the launching of a steel-built seagoing ship for British account of the Awningdeck type with the earlier mentioned dimensions still without naming her.