E. ROYAL
INTEROCEAN LINE (RIL)
1947-1977
(Koninklijke Java-China Paketvaart Lijnen –
KJCPL)
Successors to the K.P.M. who had operated a service from
Batavia and Singapore to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne
From the "Old
Ship Picture Galleries"
Nieuw Holland – twscs
11,404gt 1927 sln 3 photos Digital Order:
Amsterdam
No. a638743 uw
1948 transferred
from KPM to RIL (Pre
WWII, white hull)
1959
scrapped
No. a638744 uw
(Passing under Sydney
harbour bridge. White hull)
No. a638745 am
(White hull)
slq 2 photos Image
No. 134097
(1936, approaching
wharf in Brisbane
No.178407
(Sept 1953, Black hull)
awm photo ID
No.P01080.001
(Sydney, c.1940 before
she was requisitioned
as troopship)
Photos in Arnold
Kludas' "Great
Great Passenger Ships
of the World"
Vol 3 1924-1935,
pp.106-107

Tjiluwah/Tjiwangi
- Postcard in the author's collection
Tjiwangi – twscm 8, 627gt 1951
Krimpen
1947
began service to Australia and
New Zealand
1963
rebuilt 8,999gt
1974
sold to Singapore buyers
1984
scrapped
Tjiluwah – twscm
8630gt 1951
slq photo Image
Krimpen
No.179714 aq
1963 rebuilt
8,978gt
1972
sold to Singapore buyers
1979
scrapped

Postcard in the author's collection
Straat Banka – scm
9,033gt 1952 slq photo
Image
Rotterdam
No.178411 aq
1971
sold to Monrvian buyers
1978 scrapped
Straat Makassar
–scd 8,951gt 1951
Rotterdam
1971
sold to Monrovian buyers
1977
sold to Singapore buyers
1979
scrapped
Sources:
1. John M. Maber’s
“North Star
to Southern Cross"
(T. Stephenson &
Sons, Prescot, Lancashire 1967)
2. Duncan Haws' "Merchant Fleets 28: Holland America Line
(TCL Publications, Uckfield East Sussex 1995)
3. Arnold Kludas' "Great Passenger Ships of the World",
Vol 2 1913-1923, Vol.3 1924-1935, Vol 4 1936-1950
(Patrick Stephens, Cambridge - English editions
1976)
4. Peter Plowman's "Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977"
(Rosenber, Dural, N.S.W. 2006)
5. Old Ship Picture Galleries
http://www.photoship.co.uk
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