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| SS Tjitjalengka at Amoy Harbor in China - Robert G. Lloyd |
Australian War Memorial
The 16,700 ton British hospital ship Tjitjalengka. Built for the Java-China-Japan-Line in 1939 and owned by a Dutch shipping company, the Tjitjalengka was requisitioned for Admiralty service on 8 July 1942 and was converted in Liverpool, England to accommodate 504 patients. After service in the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans, she was transferred to the British Pacific Fleet. After the Japanese surrender, she carried Allied Prisoners of War (POWs) repatriated from Japan to Australia. On her final voyage, she carried invalids and Naval casualties from Colombo and Durban to Liverpool, England and was then returned to her owners.
Royal Navy Research Archive has a longer history of this ship.
The artist, Robert G. Lloyd has done numerous marine paintings.
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| Tjitjalengka, Indonesia |
Amoy Harbor, China is directly across the strait from Taiwan.
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