An item reported that the
British cable ship Patrol owned by the Eastern Extension Company arrived at Surabaya
for coal-hold. She came from Fremantle where she had repaired a deep sea cable
and was now heading for Singapore.(1)
Note
1. The same newspaper dated
Monday 13 February 1905 published an item dated Singapore
13 February reporting that the Dutch steamship Van der Parra of the Koninklijke
Paketvaartmaatschappij collided the Saturday before at midnight with a cable
ship named Patrol.
