According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 67 3sent 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 2-2cm guns supplied at New York on 26 March 1942.
Cargo ship, launched by Deutsche Schiff- & Machinenbau A.G., Werk Joh. C. Tecklenborg A.G., Wesermünde, Germany with yard number 425 in 1928, delivered in April 1928 as Lindenfels owner/manager Deutsche Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft 'Hansa' A.G., Bremen, Germany, laid up at Sabang, Dutch East Indies in September 1939, seized by Dutch governement in May 1940, sold to manager N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Nederland', Amsterdam, Netherlands, owner N.V. Nederlandsch-Indische Maatschappij voor Zeevaart II, Batavia, Dutch East Indies and renamed Mangkalihat on 10 May 1940 and torpedoed by German submarine U 198 underway from Suez, Egypt via Cape Town, South Africa to the United Kingdom as part of convoy B.C.2 east of Lourence Marques on 1 August 1943 and sunk on 3 August despite salvage efforts.Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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