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GUNUNG SUMBING

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jackosan [ View profile ]
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Dec 1, 1972
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Nov 7, 2019
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Cargo ship “Gunung Sumbing” at anchor in Singapore's Eastern Roads, mid-December 1972
I could not find any details of her at the time or since (it's possible I noted down the wrong spelling, although it is the correctly-spelt name of a volcano in Java)
Wasesa Line (on the ship's side) was & still is an Indonesian ship owner
She looks like she might have previously been a landing craft

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An associate found an entry about this vessel in a Lloyds Confidential List from 1971. I'm surprised she was there, considering that she doesn't appear in the conventional Lloyd's Register. It gives her date of build as 1945, gross tonnage of 3299, and a former name of RADEN SALEH 524. As David points out, she is likely a former Indonesian Army (ex U. S.) LST.

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WASESA did have another converted LST, GUNUNG MERBABU (IMO 7508130) which indeed was former military. She's not one whose LST number I know. I certainly agree she looks like a standard 100-meter LST.

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Agree looks like converted LST - of which the Indonesian forces have had many.
It may not be a coincidence that Wasesa Line was one of the businesses formed by military interests in the late 1950s - in this case by Central Java Military Region "Diponegoro" in partnership with two Chinese ship managers.
But nothing definite found.

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