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~c:: 3 Royal Interocean Lines RIL POST Vol. XIV No. 5 May 1967 From the Editor TO LEAD OFF- On page 96, Crewmail for the Gillian Gaggins (white bag) and mail for Tristan readers will meet the last of the da Cunha - page 86. 'Sydney·mob'. We hope, in the near future, to be able to intro duce more Company faces, some of them familia r for many years past and some of them yet to be introduced to our rapidly expanding organisation. A monthly magazine for all TAKE THE LEAD- We think personnel of: it may well be the first time that a sea-going doctor has served for ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES twenty years with RIL. His other (Koninklijke Java -China activities are interesting too Paketvaart Lijnen N.Y.) see page 88. N.Y. NEDERLANDSE TANK- EN LEADER - All Dutchmen in Hong Kong get a glow of PAKETV AART MAATSCHAPPIJ pride whenever Holland-America's sleek ' Rotterdam ' sails in on her annual world cruises. We thought the great ship HOLLANDSE VRACHTVAART looked better than ever this year when seen from the Ocean MAATSCHAPPIJ N.Y. Termin al - page 89 . EDITOR LEAD THE WAY- Those who Mrs L. M. Petty enjoyed the first article by Eric Spring last month in the new AREA CORRESPONDENTS series ' Dutchmen Down Under ', HOLLAND -C .G. Burgersdijk wil l find the second insta lment - J. Timmermans ju st as readable and interesting JAPAN - Y. Nagashima pages 90/ I. PHI LI PPI NES - V. Paz AUSTRALI A - B. Polain AFRICA - G.M. Forsyth ATTACK! ATTACK S. AMERI CA - H.C.G.L. Ribbink Who is the aggresstve figure? SINGAPORE - J.J.M. Lensing Pages 92/ 3. Published by: Royal lnterocean Lin es, P.O. Box 725, Hong Kong . Contents, with the excep tion of articles derived from o ther sou rces, m oy be rep rint ed ; ocknowledg cm("nt o f the source, however, would be a ppreciated. Printed in Hong Kong by • Ye Olde Printerie, Lt d . SHIP SH APE H ere is an impression by Mr G.J.F. Naerebout of the new Straat A- ships which will be built in Holland during !968f'J. lt shows clearly the elongated fo'c'sle which will have an extra upper 'tween deck. FLEET FACTS STRAAT H- Sl-ships It has now been decided to change the name of SINABANG and SIBEROET have been sold for continued STRAAT HOORN to STRAAT HOBART. She will be trading. Del ivery dates are approximately the end of the third of the STRAAT H-ships and is expected to April for SIBEROET and mid -May for SINABANG. be delivered in June 1968. STRAAT A- KEERKRING will continue to sail in the China-East Africa Service (C HEAS). Names for the five new sh ips wi ll be as follows: STRAAT AMSTERDAM STRAAT ACCRA STRAAT LUZON, on completion of ju mboizing at the STRAAT ADELAIDE STRAAT ALGOA end of May, will be worked from Japan to Australia, STRAAT AUCKLAND where she will load for South Africa. ROYAL BIRTHDAYS 21st April 30th April H.M. Queen H.M. Queen El iza beth II Juliana of Great of the Britain. Netherlands. Photo: Max Koot. - 83 - IN THE {f;.t>:i:F- J.l :u.J rtUt~~J ;a:s ;;t;:Wttafi:!w:~&~"&~~ • ~.aiEa:IJa~ ·!ltlil~ rz: ~ Jt j ~m~fliri~7(~it§Tt~ o E arly in January, Van Linschotcn entered the As:1no Dock in Yokohama for 'jumboizing'. Whilst still in three separate pieces, she was photographed by Ship's Photo grapher Ip Tin Man from Tjiw ::~ngi. ~ r Z:J'tiiJ ~;t£-~t ~!liAftX~gJ & ~-~if!McprdJ ~~i\~~ • ~;!t{il!Jilij~lt~ r . r z:~:rr J :ff.tm'J'~~* ZE o Jltlil ~~~~J~~jJJ.JU;t£ w~t;n; o ii~a~~ztr:j! · ;(;f- ti!:l¥Jgf.z ;m ~~r.t*fili ~ 151\t~ i\ ~ liJ! 0 T jiwangi herself was dwarfed, as she waited in the 'parking place' for her docking between a 70,000 ton D. W . bulk car rier and a fi sh factory ship. Captain W. Ineke nipped ashore to take this one, and just missed including a Russian freighter on the left. - 84 - DOCK Jlt !ill~ r Z:Jt.it J ~~~ S * a~ • ffiifi:i:E i!!i ~F~Z. r ± tr ~=:~ J ~ fl.IJ ~fi: s* .A. ~~ o Jlt ~.iE:tEm~ • r±tr~ =~Jfil~/1'~~1*~~~ 1i o ffii ~lLI:lJ<~IM JI. U iE fEi'PfJIDf.«~ • t£ ~ * ~ ~-~~-m• ~ reu•~ • llJfJEflfd _l~ ~~?t ~ tx-IIS~~ tB m'*oJlt lil ~ll<~~if(fJPJTJi o Scarcely had Tjiwangi departed on her cruise to H ong Kong, when Straat Mozambiq ue left the C HIW AS (China West Africa Service) tempora ril y for her annual m ainten ance. It was hardly ideal weather fo r the job: deep snow soon covered the ship, but the crew made the best of it, as Sailor Ng Yu Chup's photograph shows. Apparentl y the RIL service was well up to standard, with snow being served on a tray! tE 8 ;;t;: .=. ,ij tB;R~f.lO~PJ!i'M • &"& M•z.r ±trM~-J~CMar•~ ~~J~)~~~r±tr ~roJ ~~ · •rttr~:tJoJ~:ktk ..W PJT1io The weather improved in March , and Chief O fficer K.J.B. H oen of the Straat Banka was able to show the Straat Luanda (once Van Linschoten) s hin y-ne w a l o ngs id e h e r fleet companions. - 85 - STRAAT FUSIIIMI TRISTAN RENDEZVOUS In the long association of R IL ships with Tristan da there would be no deviation from course and that bad Cunha, there have been many meetings at sea with t he weather would cancel the arrangement. small vessels t hat serve t his remote island in the South Atlantic. Now another rendezvous has been made, this Although the Post Master General was relucta nt time with the GILLIAN GAGGINS, the new lobster because no guarantee could be given of delivery processing ship which has replaced the old wooden eventually (after an urgent telegram from Tristan, where hulled FRANCES REPETTO of the Tristan Investments they had had no mail since August 1966) twenty-four Company. bags of mail were a lso loaded at Cape Town for Tristan, RIL's agents in Cape Town received a request in plus one bag of crewmail for t he Gill ian Gaggins, February to carry four bottles of freon gas to one of which had been stationed off the island since the previous the fishing vessels off Tristan da Cunha, as they were October, and would not return until March. running short of the gas on board. Soon after sailing from Cape Town, Straat Fushimi STRAAT FUSH IMI, the next RIL ship saili ng southward made contact with the Gillian Gaggins and arranged a in t he ASAS (Far East-Africa-South America Service), rendezvous at a point some 240 miles NN E of Tristan undertook t he rendezvous, on the understanding that -33-30 South by 09-30 West. The Gillum's small !>o,us approached. The first l>orrle of freon gcrs being lowered 86 - Gillian Gaggins ( 1180 SDW) lowered her flag in salute. 6 officers, 15 crew and 50 fishermen on board. Captain C.j. Noe continues:- At 1630 we were on our way to Santos again, amid " The weather after we left Cape Town was excellent cheers, whistle-blowing and lowering of flags on both and very promising; the weather as we neared our sides. The master of the GILLIAN radioed his thanks meeting-point also gave us hope for a successful meeting. for the gas and the mail. Apparently there had been On 23rd February, three days out of Cape Town, we a leakage of gas and they had been unable to trace were nearing the meeting-point and everybody on board the cause. Now, with the new supply, they would be was getting more and more excited. All sorts of private able to continue fishing. They were all as happy and preparations were made: cameras got ready for photos: excited as schoolchildren with the mail and newspapers newspapers, magazines and paperback books collected etc. for the crew. After lunch an astonishing number of deck officers and For us, it was a p leasant interruption to the crossing. engineers (more normally to be seen in a horizontal We were presented with three boxes of crayfish tails, position at that time of day!) crowded on to the bridge in return for which we lowered a case of Dutch Heineken and finally at 1515 the Gillian Gagqins was sighted. beer, gestures which were much appreciated on both The exact positions of both ships had of course been sides. radioed several t imes already. FUSHIM I was stopped at 1600 and ready to begin the transfer of gas and Our stamp collectors were very active p reparing several mail to the little motorboat and two flat boats which envelopes to be posted at Tristan with the help of the came a longside. As you can see from the pictures, the Wireless Operator of the Gl LLI AN , to whom we gave weather was remarkably good and the operation went a jar of g inger. We a ll hope to get them back one very smoothly. of these d ays." WHO IS MR. ROYAL? A few months ago, two lots of colour transparencies NEW GUINEA NOTE reached us from Yokohama, in the hope that we might be able to trace the owners. So far, we have been Master Johnson Sumali of Wallis Island, New Guinea, con fidently wrote the following simple note: unable to do so, but now print the details in case some one recognizes his property: ·' Would _you please send me some cat lock and some of The fi rst set is two boxes of Agfa color, taken- we good prctures as you can." suspect- by an engineer, as engines feature rather He addressed it to: prominently in the photos, as we ll as interiors of a cabin " Amsterdam , 18 Netherlands, and views of Hong Kong Harbour.