Category:Straat Malakka (ship, 1939)

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Ship[edit]

  • Type:
  • Design by:
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  • Built by: Scheepswerf C. van der Giessen, Krimpen aan den IJssel Netherlands
  • Yard No: 665
  • Keel laid:
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  • Date of completion: 1939
  • Length over all: 141 m
  • LPP: m
  • Beam: 19 m
  • Draught: m
  • GRT: 6439
  • DWT:
  • NET: 3859
  • Main engine: Steam, oil fired
  • Speed: 15 kn

History[edit]

  • 1939 Named: STRAAT MALAKKA for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij.(KPM), Amsterdam. Flag: Netherlands Indies]]
    • Callsign: PKQI
  • During WWII in charter for Dutch government
    • The war W/T callsign: IIKP
  • 19.11.1941 German raider Kormoran claimed to be the Straat Malakka for Australian HMAS Sydney. In the battle that followed both ships were lost.
  • 05.1946 Back in service for KPM
  • 1947 Sold to KJCPL
  • 1973 Scrapped in Shanghai

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