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1941-08-26. AERIAL PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE DUTCH TANKER MERULA WHICH, IN 1942-02, WAS DESPATCHED TO PALEMBANG WITH CONVOY MS.3 TO COLLECT OIL IN THE FACE OF THE IMPENDING JAPANESE OCCUPATION. WHEN ESCAPING FROM PALEMBANG SHE WAS BOMBED, HEAVILY DAMAGED AND EVENTUALLY SUNK IN BANKA STRAIT BY JAPANESE AIRCRAFT ON 1942-02-13. HER SURVIVORS WERE RESCUED BY HMAS TOOWOOMBA. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
Aerial port side view of the 8,237 ton Netherlands tanker Manvantara, which was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft in the Banka Strait on 13 February 1942, while attempting to escape from Palembang.
BANKA STRAIT, 1942-02-03. THE DUTCH MERCHANT VESSEL NORAH MOLLER ON FIRE AFTER BEING HEAVILY DAMAGED BY JAPANESE BOMBERS. HER PASSENGERS AND CREW WERE BROUGHT OFF BY HMAS HOBART AND THE WRECK SUNK. (N
1941-07-03. AERIAL PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE DUTCH TANKER MV MARPESSA WHICH PROCEEDED TO PALEMBANG, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES, FROM FREMANTLE IN 1942-02 TO AS PART OF CONVOY MS.3. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTI
FREMANTLE, WA. 1941-01-02. PORT SIDE VIEW OF THE NORWEGIAN TANKER SEIRSTAD WHICH WAS IN AUSTRALIAN WATERS WHEN BROUGHT UNDER BRITISH CONTROL AFTER THE GERMAN INVASION OF NORWAY IN 1940-04. IN 1942-02
BANKA STRAIT, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES. 1942-02-03. THE DESTROYER HMS TENEDOS (H04) ALONGSIDE THE HEAVILY DAMAGED MERCHANT SHIP NORAH MOLLAR TO TAKE ABOARD MEMBERS OF HER CREW. THE MERCHANT SHIP HAD BE
AERIAL STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY WAR SIRDAR. A TANKER, SHE WAS PART OF CONVOY MS.1 FROM AUSTRALIA TO TANJONG PRIOK, NETHERLANDS EAST INDIES, IN 1942-01. THERE, ON 1942-02-25, SH
