An item reported that the British minesweeping sloop HMS Hollyhock during her voyage between April and October was to visit the coast of Borneo to Timor, Tawao (Malaysia), Sangkulirang, Dongola, Samarinda, Pamukan Bay, Bandjermassin, Macassar and Surabaya (Dutch East Indies).
Note
1. Of the Acacia-class mine sweeping sloops of which the building was ordered in January 1915 under the Emergency War Program, before 1917 mainly used as minesweeper afterwards as escort vessels. Launched by Barclay Curle&Company, Whiteinch, Scotland on 1 May 1915 and sold to be broken up on 7 October 1930.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-121-62
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