Lumut is a coastal town and mukim in

Manjung District The Manjung District, formerly known as Dindings, is a district in the south-western part of the state of Perak, Malaysia. It is the 26th-most populated district in Malaysia. It is administered by the Manjung Municipal Council (), formerly kn ...

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, situated about southwest of the

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city of

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, north from the town of

Sitiawan Sitiawan (alternate spelling: Setiawan; origin: from Malay language, Malay, a portmanteau of ''wikt:setia, Setia wikt:kawan, Kawan'', meaning "Loyal Friend") is a mukim and town in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia. The region spans an area o ...

. It is the main gateway to

Pangkor Island Pangkor Island (; Tamil language, Tamil: பங்கோர் தீவு) is an island in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia. It has a population of approximately 10,000. Nearby islands include Pangkor Laut Island, Giam Island, Mentagor Isla ...

before established Marina Island Pangkor as second gateway, and noted for

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and

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handicrafts. This once little-known fishing town has since become the home base of the

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and the site of the biggest naval shipbuilder in Malaysia, Boustead.

Toponymy

Lumut in Malay means

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular plant, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic phylum, division Bryophyta (, ) ''sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Wilhelm Philippe Schimper, Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryo ...

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, or

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. In its early days, the beach was said to be rich in moss, so the local people called it Lumut.

History

Lumut has a sheltered

jetty A jetty is a man-made structure that protrudes from land out into water. A jetty may serve as a breakwater (structure), breakwater, as a walkway, or both; or, in pairs, as a means of constricting a channel. The term derives from the French la ...

. A large

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community moved from there to

. The

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was formerly characterized by damp mossy soils on reddish earth. Tin and lumber were transported there by elephants and sampans, from as far away as Kinta. It was once part of the

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by virtue of the

Pangkor Treaty of 1874 The Pangkor Treaty of 1874 was a treaty signed between Great Britain and the Sultan of Perak on 20 January 1874, on the Colonial Steamer ''Pluto'', off the coast of Perak. The treaty is significant in the history of the Malay states as it legit ...

until it was returned to Perak by Great Britain in 1935.

Events

On 23 April 2024, two

helicopters – an

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and a

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– collided during a military parade rehearsal celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Royal Malaysian Navy. Ten people – seven on the AW139 and three on the Fennec – were killed. There were no survivors.

Dockyard

Since 1993, six

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warships had been repaired at Lumut's dockyard at a cost of RM 1.6 million. The warships were , , , , , and . Kapal_perang_di_TUDM_Lumut.jpg,

training ship (left) and multi-role support ship seen berthed at Lumut Naval Base Pembinaan kapal tentera di TLDM Lumut.jpg, Naval shipbuilding at Boustead, located in Lumut cmglee_Malaysia_Pangkor_Island_and_Lumut.jpg, Aerial photograph of Pangkor Island and Lumut from the east

List of mosques

* Masjid An-nur Pengkalan TLDM * Masjid Khairul Jariah Segari * Masjid Al-Adly Pekan Lumut * Masjid Sultan Idris Shah * Masjid Arfiah Kampung Batu

References

External links

Perak Government Portal
{{Authority control Manjung District Mukims of Perak Towns in Perak