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Zeeuws Archief. Ready to be launched 23-9-1916
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 6-2cm guns supplied at New York on 26 November 1942
Armed with 1-10,16cm/4” BL Mk. 9 Vickers gun supplied at Durban on 31 July 1940
Ordered on 13 July 1915, laid down by Kon.Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands with yard number 163 on 8 April 1916, launched on 23 September 1916, trial and delivered on 9 August 1917 to the Rotterdamsche Lloyd and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 181 underway from Bombay, India and the Portuguese colony Mormugao, India towards Durban, South Africa about 500 miles north east of Mauritius on 19 June 1944.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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