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 3-2cm guns supplied at New York on 11 August 1942
Armed with 1-2cm gun supplied at New York on 11 February 1943.
Armed with 1-10,16cm/4” LA gun.
Launched by William Dobson&Co. Ltd., Newcastle on Tyne, England with yard number 215 in 1920, handed over to manager Firma Gebr. van Uden and owner N.V. Maatschappij s.s. ‘Parkhaven’, both at Rotterdam, Netherlands in June 1920, handed over to the British Ministry of War Transport in June 1944, scuttled as block ship off Quistreham, France as part of a never completed artificial harbour on 10 July 1944, salvaged in July 1945 and broken up.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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