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Droogdok Maatschappij Soerabaja
Droogdok Maatschappij Soerabaja (DMS) was a Dutch shipbuilding and repair company which had a shipyard in the Dutch East Indies.Stibbe (1921), p. 761. History Droogdok Maatschappij Soerabaja (DMS) was founded on 22 September 1910 by a joint initiative of Dutch companies that included the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, Java-China-Japan-Lijn and Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij. The company had a starting capital of 1 million Dutch guilders and the first director was A.C. Zeeman, a former chief inspector of the Dienst van Scheepvaart. The goal of the company was to manage drydocks, build ships and provide ship repairs in the Dutch East Indies. Early years In the first few years after being established DMS only possessed a single drydock that was used for repairs and could carry up to a maximum of 3500 tons. It was a relatively new dock that had been ordered in 1911. While the dock was built to carry a maximum of 3500 tons, DMS did test if the dock could carry ships that exceeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surabaya Dock Of 3,500 Tons
Surabaya Dock of 3,500 tons was a floating dry dock which served in Indonesia from about 1913 till about 1956. Context Surabaya is on Madura Strait at the mouth of the Kali Mas river. In the natural situation, ships that wanted to trade with the city could safely anchor off the coast, so smaller ships could transload goods to the city proper. The good connections to the interior that the river provided made Surabaya a good location for a harbor. In the mid 1830s the Dutch Navy decided to locate her main base in the Indies at Surabaya. In the 1840 this led to the construction of the Maritime Establishment (Dutch: Maritiem Etablissement) just east of the river. Center piece of the base were a wet dock called basin, where ships could attach to a quay, and a dry dock. From about 1909 the Dutch government then started the construction of a modern harbor known as the Port of Tanjung Perak (Dutch: Tandjong Perak). It also wanted to have a modern dry dock facility in the new harbor. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surabaya Dock Of 14,000 Tons
The Surabaya Dock of 14,000 tons was a floating dry dock which served in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia from 1916 until at least the late 1950s. Context A large floating dry dock for the Dutch East Indies In 1900, there were three floating dry docks in the Dutch East Indies. The biggest was ''Onrust Dock of 5,000 tons'', stationed at Surabaya. A relatively new dry dock at the time was ''Tanjung Priok Dock of 4,000 tons'' at Tanjung Priok, Batavian Republic, Batavia. The old ''Onrust Dock of 3,000 tons'' was stationed at Sabang, Aceh, Sabang at the western extremity of the archipelago. The two dry docks on Java could service most ships visiting the island. They were capable of lifting all ships that the Dutch navy had, and it was thought that they would also be able to lift those which the navy would acquire in the foreseeable future. The ''Onrust Dock of 5,000 tons'' had been commissioned and stationed at Onrust Island in 1880. In 1883, the dock lifted of 5,400 tons di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Gunboat Nankai
''Nankai'' (''Japanese'': 南海) was a Dutch ship that was seized by Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II and converted into a gunboat. History She was laid down in 1941 at the Droogdok Maatschappij Soerabaja as an auxiliary minelayer for the benefit of the Gouvernementsmarine and named ''Regulus''. She was scuttled before completion by Dutch forces on 2 March 1942 after the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies. She was seized by the Japanese, repaired, and launched on 21 May 1943. On 1 November 1943, she was assigned to the Yokosuka Naval District. On 21 September 1944, ''Nankai'' departed Surabaya, Java escorting transport '' Hokkai Maru''. On 23 September 1944, ''Nankai'' and ''Hokkai Maru'' both strike mines laid by the submarine USS ''Bowfin'', 15 miles west of Sebuku Island at . leaving both ships crippled. ''Nankai'' and ''Hokkai Maru'' were towed and repaired at the No. 102 Naval Construction and Repair Department at Surabaya, Java. On 16 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Navy
The Government Navy (''Gouvernementsmarine'' in Dutch or GM) was a Dutch naval force which stemmed from the Colonial Navy in the former Dutch East Indies. It existed from 1861 to 1949 and operated in a civil-administrative role alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy. It was primarily focused on tasks such as policing and transport. Commanders (Gezaghebbers) References Sources * * * * * * Dutch East Indies Naval history of the Netherlands 1861 establishments in the Netherlands 1949 disestablishments in the Netherlands Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1949 {{mil-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slipway
A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage. The nautical terms ways and skids are alternative names for slipway. A ship undergoing construction in a shipyard is said to be ''on the ways''. If a ship is scrapped there, she is said to be ''broken up in the ways''. As the word "slip" implies, the ships or boats are moved over the ramp, by way of crane or fork lift. Prior to the move the vessel's hull is coated with grease, which then allows the ship or boat to "slip" off of the ramp and progress safely into the water. Slipways are used to launch (newly built) large ships, but can only dry-dock or repair smaller ships. Pulling large ships against the greased ramp would require too much force. Therefor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dredger
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing dams, dikes, and other controls for streams and shorelines; and recovering valuable mineral deposits or marine life having commercial value. In all but a few situations the excavation is undertaken by a specialist floating plant, known as a dredger. Dredging is carried out in many different locations and for many different purposes, but the main objectives are usually to recover material of value or use, or to create a greater depth of water. Dredges have been classified as suction or mechanical. Dredging has significant environmental impacts: it can disturb marine sediments, leading to both short- and long-term water pollution, destroy important seabed ecosystems, and can release human-sourced toxins captured in the sediment. Descriptio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gusto Shipyard
Gusto Shipyard, previously A.F. Smulders, was a shipbuilding company in Schiedam, Netherlands. It was famous for dredging and offshore vessels. In 1978 it was closed down under suspicious circumstances. Its engineering office still exists as GustoMSC, a subsidiary of American oil rig and equipment manufacturer NOV Inc. Predecessors In 1862 A.F. (Guust) Smulders (1838-1908) from Tilburg, founded a small machine factory in 's-Hertogenbosch. It soon expanded with an iron foundry (1863-1864) and a shipyard (1865). Guust also had a tow service and rented out machinery. In 1867 Guust's younger brother Charles (1842-1900) joined the company. By 1872 they had become so successful that they bought (Utrecht iron foundry and machine factory) for 60,000 guilders. The factory then became known as 'Utrechtsche IJzergieterij & Machinefabriek, Firma A.F. Smulders'. An important product in Utrecht was the production of machinery to produce margarine. In Utrecht heavy equipment was the main prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Volkskrant
''de Volkskrant'' (; ''The People's Paper'') is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000. Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, ''de Volkskrant'' today is a medium-sized centrist compact. Pieter Klok is the current editor-in-chief. History and profile ''De Volkskrant'' was founded in 1919 and has been a daily morning newspaper since 1921. Originally ''de Volkskrant'' was a Roman Catholic newspaper closely linked to the Catholic People's Party and the Catholic pillar. The paper temporarily ceased publication in 1941. On its re-founding in 1945, its office moved from Den Bosch to Amsterdam. It became a left-wing newspaper in the 1960s, but began softening its stance in 1980. On 23 August 2006 the ''Volkskrant'' published its 25,000th edition. In 1968, the ownership of De Volkskrant and Het Parool merged into a new parent, De Perscombinatie. Het Parool gained control due to the larger investment in the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
De Indische Courant
''De Indische Courant'' was the name of a number of Dutch language newspapers published on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia). Early newspapers The first paper under this name was published in 1870 (in the classification of the International Institute of Social History, ''De Indische Courant I''), in Batavia. A newspaper of the same name was published in Batavia from 1896 to 1900 (''De Indische Courant II''); this paper, one of whose contributors was Dutch author and critic of the colonial system Multatuli, was continued as the '' Nieuws van den Dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië''. The most important paper published as ''De Indische Courant'' ran from 1921 to 1942: an East-Java edition was published in Surabaya (''Indische Courant III'', 1921–1942), and a West-Java edition, published in Weltevreden, ran from 1922 to 1939 (''Indische Courant IV''). The last paper under this name ran from 1949 to 1952 (''Indische Courant V''), again from Batavia. De I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List of islands by population, most populous island, home to approximately 56% of the Demographics of Indonesia, Indonesian population. Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta, is on Java's northwestern coast. Many of the best known events in Indonesian history took place on Java. It was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, the Islamic sultanates, and the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies. Java was also the center of the History of Indonesia, Indonesian struggle for independence during the 1930s and 1940s. Java dominates Indonesia politically, economically and culturally. Four of Indonesia's eight UNESCO world heritage sites are located in Java: Ujung Kulon National Park, Borobudur Temple, Prambanan Temple, and Sangiran Early Man Site. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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