Japanese warships sighted of Sarawak according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 19 December 1941

An item referred to Admiralty London reporting that ten large warships, a tanker and a submarine of the Japanese were sighted at the coast of Sarawak.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 9 dated 19 December 1941.

Dutch aircraft attacked with success Japanse cruisers off Serawak according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 21 December 1941

An item referred to unconfirmed press items reporting that Dutch aircraft within the past 36 hours damaged 3 Japanese cruisers off Serawak and destroying 2 seaplanes and 2 transports with the loss of one bomber.

Source

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

Japanese transport Taiyo Maru sunk according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee daily summary dated 29 May 1942

An item reported that the Taiyo Maru (1) torpedoed and sunk on 8 May off Nagasaki, Japan had a large number of technicians embarked underway to the captured areas and to exploit those. The estimated losses were nearly 2.000 men.

Note

1. Laid down as Cap Finisterre for the Hamburg-South America Line by Blohm&Voss, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 208 in 1910, launched on 8 August 1911, completed on 18 November 1911, seized by Allies on 4 April 1919, became US property as USS Cap Finisterre on 11 April 1919, out of service on 25 November 1919, became as Taiyo Maru property of the Japanese merchant shipping company Nippon Yusen (Nyk),early May 1942 requisitioned by the Japanese Imperial Army to be used as an auxiliary transport and sunk by the American submarine USS Grenadier on 8 May. Of the soldiers, crew and passengers on board 817 men lost their lives. The passengers included a lot of technicians bound for the former Dutch East Indies, Sarawak , Philippines and Malaya. She departed on 7 May for Singapore. The Grenadier was laid down by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, USA on 2 April 1940, launched on 29 November 1940, commissioned on 1 May 1941 and scuttled off Phuket, Thailand on 22 April 1943 while she was damaged during a Japanese air attack. Of the Tambor-class diesel-electric submarines, preceded by Sargo-class and succeeded by Mackerel-class.

Source

Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 170 dated 29 May 1942

Malaysian tug Bonggaya 78 1994-

Malaysia-flagged, call sign 9WCB4, IMO 9112430 and MMSI 533848003.
Built by Far East Shipyard, Sibu, Serawak in 1994 for account of Santos Venture, Miri, Malaysia. Gross register tonnage 127 tons, deadweight 137 tons and as dimensions 22,02 x 7,04 x 2,51 metres. 

American screw steamship USS Marion departed Batavia, Dutch East Indies towards Serawak according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode 4 April 1893

An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 4th reported the departure of the American warship USS Marion towards Gridley and Serawak [on Borneo, Malaysia].(1)

Note
1. Launched at the Boston Navy Yard, USA as a sloop of war on 24 April 1839, commissioned on 11 December, decommissioned in 1871, converted into a 3rd screw steamship, commissioned on 12 January 1876, decommissioned on 11 December 1897, stricken on 14 March 1907 and sold to C.E. Boudrow, San Francisco, USA on 24 July. Her armament after she was rebuilt consisted of 1-11” Dahlgren, 6-9” Dahlgren guns, 1-60pd gun, 1-12pd howitzer and 1 Gatling gun.