Dutch passenger-cargo ship Van Linschoten 1909-1910 (Gouverneur-Général Aleandre Varenne 1939-1942, Teiren Maru 1942-1942)

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Call sign TJKB. Launched by N.V. Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands with yard number 101 on 1 December 1909, delivered to on 10 February 1910 to the owner/manager N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij, Batavia, Netherlands East Indies, homeport Batavia, Dutch East Indies, call sign TJKB. sold to the Société des Affréteurs Maritimes Indochinois, Saigon, French Indochina and renamed Gouverneur-Général Aleandre Varenne on 19 July 1939, seized by Japanese on 10 April 1942, renamed Teiren Maru and sunk by Allies off Hong Kong on 1 December 1942. Gross tonnage 3,004 tons, netto tonnage 1,886 tons, deadweight 3,442 tons, grain capacity 164,000 cubic feet, bale capacity 140,000 cubic feet and as dimensions 325.0 x 44.0 x 22.0 x 19.5 (loaded) feet. Propulsion, single screw, bunker capacity 274 tons and speed 10 (normal cruising) knots.