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Re: Soemenep
Posted by: Mark C. Jones ()
Date: July 04, 2020 01:32PM

Hello Jackie, I am interested in learning more about your father's service in the Royal Netherlands Navy.

His ship, the Soemenep (or Soemanep), was an auxiliary minelayer converted from a civilian tugboat. The ship was small, just 227 gross tons, and built in 1930 at Surabaya, Java. It was commissioned into the RNLN on 24 June 1940 and stationed at Balikpapan, Borneo during 1941. A few days before the Dutch evacuated the main naval base at Surabaya, the Soemanep was scuttled on 2 March 1942. Part of the crew deserted, but others attempted to evacuate the Netherlands East Indies to safety. Their evacuation ship, the merchant vessel Tjiseroea, was intercepted by Japanese warships. All aboard became prisoners of war at Makassar, Borneo and then Nagasaki, Japan.

You might post a message about your father's experiences to another web forum, dutchfleet.nl This forum has a series of more specific forums, one of which is for messages written in English.

Mark C. Jones

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Soemenep Jacqueline Boell 07/03/2020 06:15AM
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