Dutch hospital ship Op ten Noort attacked by Japanese aircraft according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 25 February 1942

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An item reported that on 23 February Japanese aircraft attacked Batavia, Buitenzorg, Surabaya and Malang and on 24 February was a Dutch hospital ship at Batavia twice bombed.(10

Note

1. The Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 25 February 1942 reported that the Dutch hospital ship Op ten Noort was attacked on Saturday morning at Surabaya killing 3 people and wounding some others. Launched by N.V. Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands with yard number 185 on 12 February 1927, delivered to the N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart, Amsterdam, Netherlands in August 1927, on 19 February 1942 to Surabaya for conversion into a hospital ship, halted by Japanese destroyer Amatuskaze 40 miles south west of Bawean while she was underway to take over survivors of the Dutch Hr.Ms. Java, De Ruyter and Kortenaer, went to Maakssar on 8 March, seized by the Japanese on 5 June, departed on 23 November towards Yokohama, Japan, arrived on 5 December and where her crew was interned, commissioned by Japanese as hospital ship Tenno Maru with two funnels, renamed Hikawa Maru No. 2 on 1 November 1944, on 23 August despite the Japanese capitulation on 15 August 1945 scuttled with the use of explosives west of Katshuma, Wakasa Bay.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR0423. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 77 dated 25 February 1942