Netherlands Antilles-flagged, IMO 1140036 and callsign TPMV. The former British monitor M16 laid down on 1 March 1915 and launched on 3 May of William Gray&Co. West Hartlepool, England with yard number 866. Original displacement 540 tons and as dimensions 54,03 x 9,4 x 2,06 metres or 177’3”x 31’x 6’9”. Designed to be use as a shore bombardment vessel (M15 class monitors) consisted the main armament of 1-9.2” gun to which 1-23pdr and 1-6pdr were added as aircraft defence. Her crew numbered then 69 men. Sold on 29 January 1920 and converted into a tanker for use in the Netherlands Antilles by the Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij and renamed Tiga. Sold in 1924 to Shell co. of Australia and finally broken up at Sydney, Australia.
