Ship's Handstamps on British Malaya Stamps

Updated:
14 February 2010
Newest Additions:
V007  M035  D002 L010 M017 P020
Total:
42

Ships

NOTE: Shipping company chops are with the firm chops.

Please use the item's ID number - orange box - when communicating about it.

Abbreviations used in the ship cancellations:

  • M. S = motor ship
  • M. V. = motor vessel
  • S. S. = steamship

Needing Identification

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Identified Ships

ShipA010
Steamship ASDANG

updated: 9 March 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • S. S. Asdang was a 640 tons ship of the East Asiatic Company. She was built in 1906. In 1909 she was transferred to Siam Steam Navigation Co. [SSNC] and she was wrecked in 1936. EAC

ShipB010
Steamship BORIBAT

updated: 9 March 2006

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Images from the author's collection

The third example uses serifs.

  • S. S. Boribat was a 563 tons ship of the East Asiatic Company. She was built in 1902. In 1908 she was transferred to Siam Steam Navigation Co. [SSNC] and was scrapped in 1937. EAC

ShipB020
GRAAF van BIJLANDT [possibly]

updated: 9 March 2006

Images from the author's collection

French mail boat mark dated 2? June 1893

  • Graaf van Bijlandt 1,221 tons, built for the KPM in 1876 by Caird & Co., Greenock. In 1891 she was taken over with fleet of Nederlandsch-Indische Stoomvaart Maatschappij [NISM]. In 1904 she was sold to Ishigaki Kumajiro, Uraga, Japan and renamed the Toyotomi Maru. In 1906 she was mined and sunk off the coast of Korea. KPM

ShipB030
Motor Vessel BRUAS

updated: 3 May 2006

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the image and for the information below. [3 May 2006]

  • Built: 1945. Gross/net/reg.: 1383/437/376 by Grangemouth Dockyard Co. Ltd., Scotland.
  • Type: General cargo coaster. Modified MOWT Standard ?B? Class Design.
  • 1946 Built for Straits Steamship.
  • 1948 Sold to Sarawak Steamship Co. Ltd. Kuching, Sarawak.
  • xx-07-1964 Sold to Straits Steamship.
  • 1972 Sold to Hung Seng Sawmill Co. Ltd. Sibu, Sarawak.

ShipC010
Steamship CARLYLE

updated: 11 May 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • Built: 1901. Gross/net/reg.: 475/229/229.
  • Shipbuilder: Selby Shipbuilding Company, Selby, England. Yard Number: 49.
  • 18-03-1902 Owned by Steamship ?Carlyle? Co. Ltd., Exchange Buildings, Liverpool, England.
  • 18-03-1902 Sold to Straits Steamship Co. Ltd. for £11,250. Registered at Singapore.
  • 1916 Sold to Steam Traders Ltd., 41 Eastcheap, London, for £10,600.
  • 1917 Sunk by submarine 5 miles WSW of Ile de Seine Lighthouse. NW coast of France.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for identifying this chop and for the additional information. [1 May 2006]

  • see a photo of the Steamship CARLYLE here

ShipC020
S.S. CREMER

updated: 3 Dec.  2007

Cremer_ETan.jpg

Images from E. Tan

  • KPM ship
  • 4,559 tons
  • built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam 
  • She had a number of first and second class carbines
  • in peacetime she was on a regular service between Batavia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
  • for war service she was fitted out as a troop ship capable of transporting 2000+ troops.
  • 5 September 1943 she run aground on St. Bees Island northeast of Mackay, Queensland, Australia and was lost. [See a biography of one of her officers and photos,  here.]


ShipD002
S.S. DIANA

updated: 7 Jan. 2009

Diana_ship.jpg

Diana_stamps.jpg

Image from the author's collection. Click the image to view the entire cover.

  • Can someone prove that this item is not a philatelic fantasy?
  • P. T. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia [PELNI]
  • The state-owned shipping company Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI), established in 1952, operates a dense network of passenger and freight services from Jakarta and Surabaya to all the country’s major ports and islands.

ShipD005
S. S. DONGGALA

updated: 14 March 2007

Images from John Wilson 21 May 2006

S.S. Donggala

  • Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij [KPM], ship
  • Named after a coastal township on the western tip of Palu Bay in north west Sulawesi (The Celebes)
  • Built: 1909. Gross/net/reg.: 333/164/---/
  • Type: General cargo, 4 cabin and 180 deck passengers. 63 head of Bali cattle on the weather deck.
  • Shipbuilder: Wilton, Rotterdam, Holland. Yard Number: 212.
  • Propulsion: Single-screw steamer capable of 8 knots.
  • Hull/ Deck Design: Steel. 1-decker. 2 masts. 2 holds. 1x8 ton Jumbo derrick. 2 deck winches. Bridge: amidships.
  • 01-09-1909 Maiden voyage with S.S. Menggala to Java.
  • 26-05-1930 Laid up at Penang.
  • 13-06-1930 Sold for 1,525 Straits Dollars to a Singapore shipbreaker.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the information and photo above. [13 March 2007]

ShipD010
Steamship DUYMAER VAN TWIST

updated: 2 May 2006

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The ship name is indicated S.S. D. van TWIST

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the images and the details below. [2 May 2006]

  • KPM. Duymaer van Twist. Steamship.
  • Built Rotterdam 1926. 1030 grt.
  • Named after Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist, Governor General in the NEI from 1851 until 1855.
  • 02-03-1942, she left Tjilatjap (now Cilacap) unescorted for Australia. On the 4th March, she was captured by the Japanese and renamed ?Dai Maru?.
  • 14-05-1945, ship was sunk by US bombers at Makassar (now Ujungpandang, Sulawesi).

ShipE010
S. S. ELOUT

updated: 3 Oct 2006

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Image from Gaden Robinson Jan. 2006

Taken from an image of a cover franked with Dutch East Indies stamps mailed on board the ELOUT at Bandjermassin destined for Soerabaya. Thanks to H. A. Cartwright [17 Sept 2006]

  • A cargo liner built 1909, gross tonnage of 1797 tons, by Feyenoord, Rotterdam KPM
  • Built for Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij
  • Could accomodate 14 first, 12 second class and 700 deck passengers.
  • 28-02-1942 Bombed and sunk by Japanese plain at Emmahaven (Padang, Sumatra).
  • The line is KPM - Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij. [Bjorn Larsson 4 Feb. 2006 ]
  • Is the cancellation SABAK, SELANGOR?
    • "Definitely not Sabak, Selangor; it looks like a Dutch East Indies cancel and could be Sablat, near Bencoolen, Sumatra." Gaden Robinson 8 Feb. 2006
  • seen in violet one line chop on a 1928 cover from Singapore to Samarinda, Indonesian Borneo bearing a 12 cent blue KGV.
  • seen on eBay in black as a triple oval handstamp on the 1935 12 cent Silver Jubilee issue
  • To see a photo of the ELOUT, click here.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for identifying this chop, the photo & for the additional information. [17 Sept 2006]

ShipH010
Steamship HYE LEONG

updated: 1 May 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • She carried mail to the Malay east coast. Ref: Proud?s Vol. 1 page 54.
  • 1883. Gross/net/reg.: 494/296/302.
  • Shipbuilder: Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow, Scotland. Yard Number: 178.
  • 1883 Built for Wee Bin & Co., Singapore.
  • 1887 Sold to Tan Beng Gam, Singapore.
  • 03-02-1890 Transferred to Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • 06-07-1926 Broken up at Singapore.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for identifying this chop and for the additional information. [1 May 2006]

ShipJ010
Steamship JARAK

updated: 2 May 2006

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The first two stamps are cancelled TANDJONG BALEI 7-6-38.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the images and the details below. [2 May 2006]

  • Built: 1927
  • Gross/net/reg.: 208/75/75.
  • Shipbuilder: Straits Steamship, Sungei Nyok Dockyard, Port Wellesley. Yard Number: 33.
  • 1927 Built for Straits Steamship.
  • xx-11-1940 Requisitioned by RN as HMS Jarak (Auxiliary Minesweeper).
  • 13-02-1942 Departed Singapore for Batavia, Java, NEI.
  • 14-02-1942 Spotted by Japanese aircraft, shelled by 3 cruisers and 1 destroyer. Badly damaged.
  • 18-02-1942 Engine failed at Tanjung Buku, the southern extremity of Pulau Singkep. Crew and stores landed approximately 12 miles from town of Dabo. Ship scuttled in 17 fathoms off Tanjung Buku. Approximate position, 0º 43' S. 104º 22' E.

ShipK005
Motorship KAMPAR

updated: 4 Dec. 2007

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Straight line markings


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Triple oval markings

  • The Straits Steamship also had a ?Kampar? but she was a steamship.
  • Different cancellations (straight-line and oval, upper and lowercase). This was not unusual, in a hurry the person applying the cancel used the first stamp that came to hand.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the images and the details above. [2 May 2006]

KAMPAR_ETan.jpg

Image thanks to E. Tan

  • KPM ship 
  • 570 tons
  • 1930 built by Int. Scheepsbouw Mij. De Maas, Slikkerveer, Rotterdam
  • 1958 sold to Pacific Shipping Co., Singapore renamed Hai Soon
  • 1965 sold to Indonesia not renamed, trace lost
  • see a photo of the Steamship KAMPAR here

ShipK010
Steamship KEDAH

updated: 4 May 2006

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Image from Gaden Robinson Jan. 2006

Image from H. A. Cartwright May 2006

  • See a history on this website.
  • Associated with the ?Blue Funnel Line? (Ocean SS Co. Ltd.) [Cartwright, 3 May 2006]
  • When bought by Zim Line, she was renamed Kedmah, which means ?Eastward?. [Cartwright, 3 May 2006]

ShipK020
Steamship KRIAN

updated: 3 May 2006

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the images and the details below. [2 May 2006]

  • Built: 1911 by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Greenock, Scotland
  • Gross/net/reg.: 857/---/461.
  • Built for Straits Steamship.
  • 1953 Broken up


ShipL010
K.M. LAWAK

updated: 7 Jan. 2009

Lawak_handstamp.jpg

 Lawak_stamps.jpg

Image from the author's collection. Click the image to view the cover.

  • Can someone prove that this item is not a philatelic fantasy?
  • P. T. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia [PELNI]
  • The state-owned shipping company Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI), established in 1952, operates a dense network of passenger and freight services from Jakarta and Surabaya to all the country’s major ports and islands.



ShipM005
MAETSUYCKER

updated: 8 March 2008


Maetsuyker_JandeKort.jpg

Image from Jan de Kort

  • MAETSUYCKER was a 1,390 ton passenger ship built in 1890 by Kon. Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen for KPM. She went out of service in 1920 and then scrapped at Singapore in 1931.
  • Named for Joan Maetsuycker, Governor-General of Ceylon 1646-1650 and then of the Dutch-East Indines 1653-1678.

ShipM010
Steamship MAHIDOL

updated: 12 Sept 2006

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Image from the author's collection

  • Steamship Mahidol was a 753 tons ship of the East Asiatic Company. She was built in 1908 and was transferred to Siam Steam Navigation Co. [SSNC] the same year. In 1938 she was deleted from Lloyds Register. EAC
  • Shipbuilder: Kjobenhavn?s Fldk & Skbs., Copenhagen, Denmark. Yard
  • 1908 Built for the Siam Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Bangkok, Siam, as Mahidol.
  • 25-04-1924 Sold to Straits Steamship.
  • 30-10-1936 Stranded and wrecked on Kemaman Bar, at the entrance to the Chao Phraya River leading into Bangkok.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for additional information. [1 May 2006]

  • see a photo of the Steamship MAHIDOL here

ShipM015
S. S. MALACCA

updated: 2 May 2007

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Left image from John Wilson 21 May 2006, right image from author's collection

  • The stamp is the KEVII 5 cent orange water marked multiple crown CA issued in 1909.
  • Straits Steamship Company Limited had 2 ships named Malacca. This is the marking used on the MALACCA (1)
  • Built: 1885. Gross/net/reg.: 653/---/405.
  • Type: General cargo coaster with deck passengers.
  • Shipbuilder: Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, Scotland. Yard Number: 59.
  • Propulsion: Same. Single-screw steamer. COMP. 2-cyl. 28, 54 x 36 in. stroke. 125 NHP.
  • Hull/Deck Design: Iron. 2-decker. 2 masts. F: 27 ft. (8.23 m). B: 64 ft. (19.5 m). P: 41 ft. (12.5 m).
  • Dimensions: 189.5 x 26.5 x 16.25 ft. (57.77 x 8.1 x 4.95 m).
  • 1885 Built for Tan Beng Wan, Singapore.
  • 29-05-1885 Registered at Singapore.
  • 27-11-1885 Owned by Tan Beng Wan, Tan Keong Saik of Singapore and Tan Im Neo of Malacca.
  • 03-02-1890 Sold to Straits Steamship.
  • 18-08-1921 Sold to shipbreakers at Singapore. Certificate returned and cancelled, registry closed.

Thanks to Harold Cartwright for correcting the listing and for supplying the information above. [2 May 2007]

ShipM017
M.S. MAPIA

updated: 17 Sept 2006

Mapia

Image from the author's collection

  • The M.V. MAPIA was a 9,373 ton ship built by Sir James Laing & Sons at Sunderland for KPM in 1923. Besides cargo, she could accommodate eight passengers in the company's  Amsterdam - East Indies as well as the Java - New York service. 
  • In 1959, she was scrapped in Hong Kong.

ShipM020
Steamship Mary Austin

updated: 17 Sept 2006

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Image from the author's collection

  • AGeneral cargo coaster of 206 gross tons built in 1865 by T. D. Marshall & Co., Newcastle, England
  • Single-screw steamer with dimensions: 36.62 x 5.82 x 2.99 m.
  • 1867 Built for W. Austin, South Shields, England, as Mary Austin.
  • 1874 Sold to Bacheelerie, Marseilles, France. Renamed L?Aevenir.
  • 1877 Sold to N. V. reederij ss Tromp, Makassar, NEI. Renamed Tromp. M. Ohl & Co., as managers.
  • 1884 Sold to W. G. Smith and John Pitman, Hong Kong. Renamed Mary Austin. Registered at Hong Kong.
  • 1894 Sold to Khaw Joo Gee, Penang.
  • 1903 Transferred to Koe Guan Company (became Eastern Shipping Co. Ltd., in 1907).
  • 07-04-1918 Sunk in collision at Penang.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for identify this chop & the additional information. [10 Sept 2006]

 ShipM030
S. S. MELCHIOR TREUB
updated: 14 Jan. 2007

MelchiorTreub_MariHeessels.jpg

Image thanks to Mari Heessels [Sept. 2007]

  • Twin-screw passenger/cargo steamer.
  • 3,458 tons built in 1913 for KPM by Maatschappij Fijenoord, Rotterdam.
  • Named after the scholar and botanist Melchior Treub, a director of Java?s famous botanical gardens at Buitenzorg (now Bogor) from 1880-1909.
  • She became a hospital ship from 1943 to 1945 and was sent to scrap in 1948 in Hong Kong.
  • Seen on eBay in March 2006 "S.S. MELC..." in violet one line chop on a 6 cent Straits KGV ]

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for additional information. [19 Nov. 2006]


ShipM035
S. S. MUNCASTER CASTLE
updated: 2 Feb. 2009

Can someone supply information confirming that this was actually used on the stamps of the Straits Settlements?

MuncasterCastle.jpg

Click the image to view the cover.

Image from the author's collection.


  • 5,853 tons, built in 1928 by Cammell Laird & Co., Birkenhead
  • she could carry 265 passengers and 3000 tons of cargo
  • torpedoed by a German submarine on 30 March 1942 near Monrovia with the loss of 20 crew and passengers however, 246 passengers and 82 crew survived.
  • See the War Memorial Trust for an image and history

 ShipN010
S. S. Nieuw Zeeland
updated: 3 Dec.  2007

NieuwZeeland_ETan.jpg

Image thanks to E. Tan

  • a KPM ship
  • 10,906 tons built in 1928 by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mij, Rotterdam
  • Speed 15.5 knots, Length 160m and Width 19m, Crew of 200
  • 123 first class and 50 third class passengers
  • she was put on the regular service between Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. 
  • Converted to a troop ship in 1940 able to accommodate 1,000 troops and she along with her Dutch crew were delivered to the Royal Navy. 
  • She joined convoys sailing to the Middle East and Europe.
  • She was involved in the invasion of North Africa, and on 11 November 1942 she was sunk by a German submarine off of Africa after delivering her troops.  (see here for a photo).

ShipO010
Steamship OP TEN NOORT

updated: 15 Jan 2009

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Op_ten_Noort.jpg

Images from the author's collection


  • A 6,076 ton passenger-cargo ship was built in 1927 by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam for  KPM
  • in 1941 converted into a hospital ship
  • on 3 March 1942 she was captiured off Bawean Island near Java by a Japanese submarine and there after renamed the Tenno Maru and used by them as hospital ship
  • in 1944 she was renamed Hikawa Maru
  • on 17 August 1945 she was scuttled by the Japanese
  • photo and extensive history are availalbe here  


ShipO020
M.S. OPHIR

Ophir_JdK.jpg

Image thanks to Jan de Kort, Sept. 2007

Ophir 2

  • Passenger/cargo motor ship of 4,070 tons built for KPM in 1929 by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam. She was employed as a trooper / hospital ship from 1942 to 1945.
  • In 1959 she was sent to be scrapped at Hong Kong.
  • seen in The Malayan Philatelist Vol. 35 #2 April-June 1994 (whole #184) page 33. Triple oval handstamp applied to a KGV 12 cent stamp affixed to a cover to Tanjong, Java.

Ophir 1

  • There was an earler passenger / cargo steamer of 307 tons named OPHIR built in 1876 at the Shipbuilder, Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland
  • It burnt at Singapore in 1912.
  • Most likely named after the fabulous gold country as named in the Bible (Kings 9, verse 28 and Kings 10, verse 11) or possibly named after Mount Ophir, on Sumatra?s west coast.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for additional information. [19 Nov. 2006]


ShipP010
Ship the PAKAN
No frame ( 6.5 mm letters ) red

updated: 1 May 2006

Image from the author's collection

  • is this the Trengganu town of Paka?
  • "Just speculation, but this looks like a shipping mark." John Wilson 31 Jan. 2006
  • Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the following information [1 May 2006]
    • Likely the "PAKAN"
    • Built: 1882. Gross/net/reg.: 121/---/---.
    • 1882 Built for Song Soon Guan, Singapore.
    • 1887 Sold to Wee Bin & Co.
    • 07-09-1901 Wrecked in Durian Straits, Riouw Archipelago, NEI. Bound Singapore to Jambi.

ShipP020
S.S. PLANCIUS
Triple Oval, violet

updated: 27 November 2008

PLANCIUS.jpg

Image from the author's collection

PLANCIUS_Image.jpg

  • KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART / S.S. PLANCIUS / MAATSCHAPPU
  • S.S. Plancius (5,955 tons) was built in 1924 by the Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Amsterdam KPM . She was was one of five passenger ships that were built for the line, the others were the Tasman, Bontekoe, Swartenhondt and Van der Wijck. 
  • In WWII she served as a troop transport and participated in the evacuation of civilians from Singapore. She was eventually used as a submarine tender. 
  • The S.S. Plancius was named for Petrus Plancius (1552–1622) who was a Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman. 
  • She was scrapped at Hong Kong in 1958.

ShipR010
Steamship REDANG

updated: 9 March 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • S. S. Redang was a 500 tons ship of the East Asiatic Company. She was built in 1901. In 1908 she was transferred to Siam Steam Navigation Co. [SSNC] and was lost in 1942. EAC

ShipR020
Motor Vessel RENGAM

updated: 5 May 2006

SG279 2 cents green + SG297 5 cents brown x 2

Cancelled Tandjong Balei 14-02-1939 [SG?s first recorded date of issue of SG 297 (die II) is 18-02-1939?]

SG279 2c green + SG284 10c dull purple cancelled Tandjong Balei 14-06-1938

SG285 12c blue cancelled Tandjong Balei

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the images and for the information below. [5 May 2006]

  • Built: 1934 by George Brown & Company, Scotland.
  • Gross/net/reg.: 185/74/74.
  • Built for Straits Steamship.
  • 11-01-1942 Abandoned at Penang.

ShipS010
Steamship SAPPHO

updated: 24 March 2008

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Image on the left is from the author's collection. Image on the right is from John Wilson [May 21, 2006].

  • Sappho, 532 gross tons, built in 1887 for the Blue Funnel Line. 
  • Shipbuilder: Scott & Company, Greenock, Scotland. Yard Number: 253.
  • I05-08-1890 she was transferred to Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Singapore.  The other ships in the fleet were: Will o' the Wisp (148 tons), Malacca (404 tons) , Billiton (335 tons) and Hye Leong (406 tons). All were schooner-rigged with small engines.
  • 07-04-1923 Sold to Menam Pilots Association, Bangkok, Siam. Used as a pilot hulk anchored off the bar of the Menam river (approaches to Bangkok).
  • 1928 Broken up.
  • "The ship carried at least two passenger cabins and regularly made the trip between Singapore & Tumpat. [The Malayan Philatelist Vol 20, page 78.]
  • "Mails from Kuala Trengganu are forwarded by the Siam Steam Navigation Company's Steamers ... and by the S.S. Sappho once a week.] [The Malayan Philatelist Vol 27, page 35. Mentioned in a letter from the Postmaster General of Singapore date 7 July 1911.] 

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for additional information. [1 May 2006]

ShipS020
Steamship SARIE BORNEO

updated: 3 Oct. 2006

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Images from John Wilson [May 21, 2006]

  • The Sarie Borneo was built by Riley, Hargraves and Co. in Singapore in 1897. At the time she was the largest steel streamer built in Singapore. She was 741 tons, 195 feet long, 29 feet wide with a depth of 13.7 feet. In 1897 she is listed as a Dutch ship owned by Aug Lim Thay of Banjermassin, Borneo and the Captain was J. Tuckey. By 1920 the owners were Thio Soen Yang and Thio Soen To still in Banjermassin, Dutch Borneo and the Captain being N. Griffin since 1918. She does not appear in the 1930 Lloyds List. [Lloyds Register of British & Foreign Shipping 1900, 1920 and 1930.]
  • Mr. Thio Soen To, a native of Bandjermassin. Dutch Borneo. He was a general merchant, ship owner and commission agent in his home town and in Singapore. He also had another ship SARI BANDJER, both ran between Singapore and Dutch Borneo (now Kalimantan). His brother, Kapitein Thio Soen Yang, operated a similar business in Bandjermassin under the chop Ek Liong Ho. [H. A. Cartwright, 17 Sept 2006]

Image adapted from 20th Century Impressions of British Malaya?, Lloyd?s Greater Britain
Publishing Co. Ltd. 1908. Editors: Arnold Wright and H. A. Cartwright

ShipT010
Steamship TASMAN

updated: 9 March 2006

Image from the author's collection

  • S.S. Tasman (3) 4,978 tons KPM ship built in 1922 by Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd., Hull. In 1948 she was transferred to Koninklijke Java China Paketvaart Lijnen [KJCPL]. In 1955 she reverted back to KPM and finally in 1958 she was scrapped at Hong Kong. KPM

ShipT015
Motorship TINOMBO

updated: 4 Dec. 2007

TINOMBO_ETAN.jpg .  TINOMBO_ETAN.jpg

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the imageon the left and to E. Tan for that on the right.

  • TINOMBO [Tinimbo]
  • KPM ship
  • 872 tons, 188 x 34 x12 m
  • built in 1930 by Burgerhout's Machine Fabriek, Rotterdam
  • She was one of the eleven Allied merchant ships lost as a result the explosion aboard the British ammunition ship Fort Stikine at Bombay, India, on April 14th, 1944. 

ShipT020
Motorship TOHITI

updated: 9 March 2006

Cancelled: Pontianak 24 September 1937 - the chief city in West Borneo at the mouth in the Kapuas delta.

Image from the author's collection

  • M. S. Tohiti 982 tons was built for KPM in 1930 by C. van der Giessen & Zonen, Krimpen aan den IJssel. In 1942 she burnt and sank at Tjilatjap, Java during a Japanese air raid. The wreck was raised by Japanese but not repaired and in 1945 she was scrapped. KPM

ShipT030

PER S.S. T / Chinese characters & possibly Malay
Possibly Steamship TERESA?

updated: 13 May 2008

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Image from the author's collection

ShipID007B.jpg

  • The letter after the "T" could be an "A", "E'" or maybe an "H"?
  • Possibly TERESA? Steamship.
  • Built: 1886. Gross/net/reg.: 1177/753/--- tons
  • Shipbuilder: Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Grangemouth, Scotland. Yard
  • 1886 Built for J. W. Adamson, London, England.
  • 1888 Sold to Guthrie & Co., Singapore.
  • 1888 Sold to Wee Bin & Co. (later became Ho Hong SS Co. Ltd.).
  • 1888, Wee Bin ships were operating between Singapore and Bali, the Celebes, Moluccas, North Borneo and the Malay ports of Klang, Telok Anson and Port Dickson. To bring in hundreds of Chinese migrants, Wee Bin Line ran a ship three or four times a week from Swatow and Amoy, via Hong Kong, to Singapore.
  • 1936 Broken up.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for the additional information. [1 May 2006]

ShipT040

Motorship TOMOHON 

updated: 8 March 2008

Tomohon1_JandeKort.jpg . Tomohon2_JandeKort.jpg

Images from Jan de Kort
  • M.S. Tomohon was a 983 ton ship built in 1930 built by C. van der Giessen & Zonen, Krimpen aan den IJssel for KPM.  On March 1, 1942 she was sunk together with four other KPM ships by Japanese destroyers in the Indian Ocean with the loss of 6 lives.

ShipV005

Steamer VAN DER PARRA

updated: 3 Oct 2006

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Images from the author's collection

  • A general cargo coaster steamer of 587 gross tons built in by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij, Amsterdam. Holland.
  • Dimensions: 54.0 x 8.24 x 3.06
  • 1899 Built for Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, (KPM) as Van der Parra.
  • 1930 Sold to the Dutch Colonial Oil Co., Soengi Geroeng, on the River.
  • Moesi, Palembang, Sumatra. Used as storage vessel.
  • 1935 Scuttled to act as a breakwater off Muntok, Banka Island, Sumatra.
  • The ship was named after PETRUS ALBERTUS VAN DER PARRA who was the Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies 1761 to 1775. [See here]
  • For another image of the Van der Parra, see here.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for identify this chop, the photo & the additional information. [10 Sept 2006]

nw ShipV007

Steamer VAN NOORT

updated: 14 Feb. 2010

vanNoort_mine.JPG

Image from the author's collection

  • Pahud: 1,994 tons built by Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij. in 1906, Amsterdam
  • 1908 damaged by fire, 1909 repaired renamed Van Noort
  • in 1932 laid up
  • in 1936 sold to Soc. des Affreteurs, Indochinois, Saigon renamed Gouverneur Général Pasquier
  • in 1943 struck a mine in Gulf of Tonkin and sank, see here.
  • The van Noort was named Olivier van Noort (1558 - 22 February 1627) who was the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world. In 1598, he sailed from Rotterdam with four ship planning to attack Spanish shipping in the Pacific as well as trade with China. He returned to Rotterdam via the Dutch East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope arriving in August 1601, see here.

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Steamship VAN OUTHOORN

updated: 1 Sept 2006

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Image from Gaden Robinson

  • Steam freighter with passengers accommodations.
  • Built in 1927 by Int. Scheepsbouw Mij. De Maas, Slikkerveer, Rotterdam
  • Dimensions: 91.61m x 12.25m x 4.45m, 2,069 gross tons.
  • In 1933 she could accommodate: 24 first class, 16 second class, 1,285 deck passengers.
  • From 31.01.1942 to 28.11.1945, she was a Chartered British Ministry of War Transport.
  • On 14 April 1943, at Milne Bay she sustained damage during a Japanese dive bomber attack.
  • After the war she became part of the fleet of the Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, Amsterdam.
  • In september 1955 she was scrapped at Hong Kong.
  • "The line is KPM - Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, not KNSM. However, it must be "Van Outhoorn", probably named after Willem Van Outhoorn, late 17th century Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies." [Bjorn Larsson 4 Feb. 2006]
  • The ship was named after WILLEM VAN OUTHOORN who was the Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies 1691 o 1704. [See here]
  • To see a photo of the Van OUTHOORN, click here.

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M. S. AMNUPUTTY

updated: 16 Oct. 2006

  • seen in violet as a double oval handstamp applied to a pair of 10 cent KGVI stamps on a cover with no date stamps. The cover went from SINGAPORE to PONTIANAK, West Kalimantan which is the Indonesian part of Borneo. Strangely, the sender has inscribed it per 'S.S. Lamongan' so, it seems that the little ship was known by two names.
  • 556 tons was built in Portland in 1946 by the Albina Engine & Machine Works as a standard US Army Freight & Supply ship. Acquired by KPM in 1948. In 1951 she was renamed the Lamongan. In 1958 she was sold to a Singapore company who renamed her and from then onwards she was sold and renamed numerous times.
  • 181.1 (overall). 171. 2 (between perpendiculars) x 29.1 x 10.7 ft. (draught).
  • 1946 Purchased and completed as F. Amnuputty for the Dutch Government
  • 1948 Purchased by KPM, same name.
  • 1951 Renamed Lamongan.
  • 1958 Purchased by Heap Eng Moh SS Co., Ltd., Singapore; renamed Giang Bee. [Heap Eng Moh was associated with Soon Bee SS Co. Ltd. Both operated as the Red Funnel Line.]
  • 1969 Renamed Kota Mas.
  • 1964 Sold, renamed Hugo.
  • 1965 Renamed Salto.
  • 1966 Renamed Hugo.
  • 1975 Sold, renamed King Petrel.
  • 1979 Sold, renamed Iman.

Thanks to H. A. Cartwright for additional information. [16 Oct. 2006]



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