The Netherlands shipbuilding yards are very busy, end when the Java China Japan Line placed an order for a new 17,000 ton motorship, the keel could not be laid before March 5, 1938, in spite of the fact that the ship is to be launched in February 1939.
The s. Tjitjalengka is to be 480 ft. long, 66 ft. wide and measure 40 ít from the upper deck to the bottom. Her engines are to be built by Messrs. Stork & Ca. of Henglo, Holland, and consist of 6,000 P.H. double functioning Stork-Hesselman motor, which should give the fully loaded ship the speed of some 15 knots.
The ship is designed to accomodate 1400 passengers, and take some 10,000 tons of cargo, at a time. She is to have a refrigeration system, 64 first class passenger accommodation, im single and double cabins each having its own private bath; 55 sec-and A class, and 100 second B berths, and space for about 1,000 deck passengers.
After completion, the s. Tjitjalengka will sail direct to the Netherland Indies, where she is ito join the Java China Japan Line's Far Eastern merchant fleet, in which she will be the largest as well as most modern vessel on the Shanghai-
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