According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673sent by the office of armament the Royal Netherlands Navy located at 41 East 42nd Street, New York 17, USA. There were no complete records available, so there were several sources used to compile the list. Sometimes the kind of guns gave indirect information regarding the origin such as 4”/BL and 12 pounder guns were British mostly supplied in the United Kingdom, Canada or Curacao. The 4.7” guns were old Japanese guns placed on some vessels in the begin of the war at Singapore and some 4” guns in the same period at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The trade in which the ship was used gave also an indication were the guns were supplied, for example involved in the Pacific trade means supplied at the West Coast.
Armed with 4-2cm guns supplied at New York on 15 January 1943
Armed with 1-7,62cm/3” 50 dual purpose gun supplied at New York on 4 February 1943
Armed with 1-10,16cm/4” BL gun
Call sign PHHF. Launched by William Hamilton&Co Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 376 on 7 August 1920, delivered to the N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, Amsterdam, Netherlands in November 1920 and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 178 in the Indian Ocean south-east of Durban, South Africa on 1 June 1943. Gross tonnage 6,586.00 toons, net tonnage 4,104.00 tons, deadweight 9,172.00 tons, gran capaity 489,000 cubic feet, bale capacity 426,000 cubic feet and as dimension 420.07 x 54.07 x 33.04 feet.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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