Brunei riverine patrol boat KDB Maharajalela P 22 1966-

Royal Brunei Forces Museum, Bandar Sen Begawan, Brunei.

Bendahara-class. Ordered from Singapore in 1965, delivered in 1966 and decommissioned in 1980. Crew numbered 6 men. Speed 20 knots. Displacement 10 tons and as dimensions 14.10 x 2.60 x 0.90 metres. Armed with 2 machine guns. 

Japanese invading Labuan according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 4 January 1942

An item reported that Japanese forces landed on the Island of Labuan which was as the J.I.C. commented the main shipping and commercial center of Brunei and British North Borneo.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 25 dated 4 January 1942

Positions of the Japanese navy according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 21 December 1941

An item referred to British Intelligence Singapore reporting that according to radio traffic and RDF several locations of the Japanese navy were known:

CinC Combined Fleet-Mandate area

CinC Second Fleet-Kamranh Bay Area [[Cam Ranh Bay, deep-water bay, Khánh Hòa Province, Vietnam]

Southern Expeditionary Force-Palau area [Western Pacific]

1 aircraft Carrier-Saigon [French Indochina=Vietnam]

7 units-northeast coast of Malaya

1 carrier and 40 other units-northeast coast of Borneo

8 ships sighted off Miri [Malaysia]

2 ships sighted of Belait [Brunei]

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 11 dated 21 December 1941.

British screw steam sloop HMS Rinaldo visited the Dutch East Indies in June 1904

The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1903-1904 reported that the British sloop HMS Rinaldo visited Sabang, Dutch East Indies between 13-17 June 1904. The Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 27 June reported her visit, bunkering coal and leaving for Singapore. The Soerabaijasch handelsblad dated 18 August 1904 referred to the Straits Times reporting that she returned from Brunei at Laboean. She anchored on 5 August on a distance of 15 miles of Brunei as requested by the British consul. A steam barge was sent to consult the doctors. It became clear that already more as 1.000 inhabitants dies of smallpox. The Rinaldo was to stay at Laboean for the next 3 days waiting for more details if assistance was needed.

Notes

1. Part of the Condor-class screw steam sloops, launched by Laird Brothers, Birkenhead, England on 25 May 1900 and sold on 21 October 1921.

2. Sabang was an important coal bunker station visited by Dutch and foreign merchant and warships.

Brunei fast patrol boats Syafaat (19 KDB) 2009- and Afiat (20 KDB) 2009-

Lürssen-Werft, Lemswerder, Germany May 2010

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Of the Ijtihad-class, preceded by Waspada-class. Type FPB 41. Displacement 262 tons and as dimensions 41 x 7.7 x 1.9 metres or 134.6 x 25.3 x 6.3 feet. The 2 diesels supplying 8,940 hp allowing a maximum speed of 30 knots. Crews numbered 16-21 men. Armament consists of 1-27mm Rheinmetall MLG gun. Both commissioned in August 2010. Syafaat MMSI 508111120 and call sign V8DC and Afiat MMSI 508111121 and call sign V8DD.

Brunei offshore patrol vessel KDB Darussalam (06) 2011-

 Lürsssen Werft, Lemwerder, Germany, May 2010

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Brunei-flagged, MMSI 508111122 and call sign V8DE. OPV80 design. Launched by Lürsssen Werft in March 2010, acquired on 4 May 2011 and commissioned on 7 May 2011. With  a displacement of 1,625 tons and as dimensions 75 (between perpendiculars) 80 (over all) x 13 x 3-3,3 metres or 262.6 x 42.8 feet, Crew numbered minimum 40 men. The 2 MTU 12V diesel engines supplying 11,400 hp allowing a speed of 22 knots, a range of 7,500 nautical miles/12 knots speed and 21 days endurance. The armament consists of 1-57mm Bofors Mk3 gun, 2-2cm Oerlikon cal 85 KAA automatic cannon, 4xExocet MM40 Block 3 missiles and 1 helicopter for which she is fitted out with a helicopter landing platform

Japanese tanker Itukushima Maru 1937-1944

Official number 44234 and call sign JYQL. Built by Kawasaki Dockyard Co. Ltd., Kobe, Japan as the Itsukushima Maru in 1937, renamed in 1938, owned by Nippon Suisan K.K., Tokyo, Japan. Gross tonnage 10.007 tons, net tonnage 5.817 tons and as dimensions 503 x 65 x 37.1 feet. Sunk by American aircraft on 28 October 1944 off Brunei Bay.

Japanese Akikaze design flotilla leader according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1921

An item referred to the magazine Schiffbau reporting that Japan was building 1.900 ton flotilla leaders of the Akikaze design which were to be completed in 1921. The horsepower of 50.000 hp was to make a maximum speed of 38 miles and with a fuel oil bunker capacity of 600 ton a range of 3.500 nautical miles possible. The armament consisted of 4/5-12,7cm guns and 6-53cm torpedo tubes.91)

Note
1. The Akikaze was of the Minekaze-1st class destroyers with a displacement of 1.234 (normal)-1.367(full load) tons. Horsepower 38.500shp, speed 39 knots and an armament of 4-12cm/4.7” guns, 2-7,7mm machineguns, 6-53,3cm/21” torpedo tunes and avaible to take 16 naval mines with her. Built under the Fiscal year 1918, laid down by Maizuru Naval Arsenal, Nagasaki, Japan on 7 June 1920, launched on 14 December 1920, commissioned on 16 September 1921, torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Pintado with all hands 160 miles west of Cape Bolinoa, Luzon, Philippines underway from Mako, Taiwan towards Brunei on 3 November 1944 and stricken on 10 January 1945. 

Maintenance vessel Wimpey Sealion of Malaysia 1973->2012

Nowadays the Seasafe Synergy. Malaysia-flagged, homeport Port Klang, owned by Amsbach Maine Malaysia, Kuala Lumpour, Malaysia and managed by Nautika Seasafe, Kuala Belait Brunei. IMO 7340617, MMSI 533001400 and call sign 9WEU2. Ex-Wimpey Sealion (owned by Wompey Marine Ltd until 1985), ex-Valle Bianca (owned by Cispa Gas Transport, homeport Pescara, Italy until September 1993), ex-GMMOS Freedom (owned by Gulf Marine maintenance and Offshore Services Ltd, registered Panama, until December 1997), ex-Seabulk Freedom (owned by Seabulk Freedom registered Majuro, Marshall Islands until August 2005) and ex-Seabulk Takzim (until March 2010). Built in 1973 at the shipyard Babcock marine Appledore, Appledore, United Kingdom with a gross tonnage of 1.532 tons, a summer deadweight of 1.494 tons and as dimensions .. x . x  4,6 metres.

Amphibious warfare craft LCM Serasa (L 33) 1996- of Brunei

Ordered on 30 November 1995. Sister ship Teraban (L 34), both launched at the yard of Transfield Shipbuilding, Western Australia on 8 November 1996. With a displacement of 336 tons full load are the dimensions 30,00 (waterline)- 32,95 (hull)-36,50 x 8,00 x 1,50 metres. The two Caterpillar 3508 diesels driving 2 propellors supplies 1,930 bhp allowing a speed of 12 knots and with a speed of 8 knots a range of 1,000 nautical miles. The armament consists of 2-20mm anti aircraft guns and 2x1-7,62mm machine guns. The crew numbers 12 men. Both crafts were used to transport vehicles, liquid stores (fuel and water stored in 4 tanks) and deck cargo's.