No.586 Pretoria launched in 1936

Posted on April 25, 2023 by donships

17,891grt for German East Africa Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

Empire Doon 1945 Ministry of Transport

Empire Orwell 1949 Ministry of Transport

Gunung Djati 1959 Pan-Islamic SS Co then Alfred Holt

Tanjung Pandan 1979 Indonesian Navy

Scrapped Taiwan 1987

Chartered to the Pan-Islamic SS Co of Karachi, Pakistan who used her to carry Muslim pilgrims. Alfred Holt & Co bought her in 1959 and renamed her Gunung Djati after the 16th century Javanese Wali Sanga Sunan Gunungjati. In 1962 the Indonesian government bought Gunung Djati

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