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OSE on stamp OSE MARU

Post by shipstamps » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:35 pm

OSE MARU.

Built as a tanker under yard No156 by Deutsche Werft, Finkewerder near Hamburg for N.V. Petroleum Maatschappij La Corona (Dutch Shell), The Hague, Netherland.
15 December 1934 launched under the name GENOTA.
Tonnage 7.987 gross, 4.754 net, 12.110 dwt., dim. 141.12 x 18.05 x 8.38m.
One 8-cyl. MAN diesel, 3.500 hp., speed 12 knots.
April 1935 completed.

30 April 1942 under command of Capt. J. van Veld and in ballast she sailed from Geraldton, Australia for Abadan on the Persian Gulf to load a full cargo of oil.
She did not have an escort, and was not in convoy.
09 May around 07.30 a.m. two vessel were sighted in position 17 40 S 76 20E, Capt Veld tried to escape to alter course in a opposite direction, but it failed, and the two vessel fired some warning shots that he had to stop.
He stopped and the two vessel the Japanese auxiliary cruisers AIKOKU MARU and HOKOKU MARU sent a prize crew on board of 4 officers and 30 mariners.
The treatment of the crew by the Japanese prize crew was correct, and they got orders to proceed to Penang and then via Tarakan where she arrived on 20 May 1942 to load 5.800 ton oil, from there she sailed on 4 July bound for Yokohama. She stayed there for one month and all this time the crew was well treated.
11 June 1942 Capt. Veld and his crew got orders to be ready for the internment camps, the 11 Dutch officers were transported to Formosa, from the Chinese crew they never heard anything afterwards.
They stayed there as POW’s from 02 August 1942 till 24 October 1944 under harsh conditions used as firemen and trimmer. Two officers died the Chief engineer on dysentery after one month and the wireless operator on beriberi two months later.
1944 Capt Veld and 8 officers were transferred to Japan but they survived the war and the only officer left behind in Formosa also survived the war.

20 July 1942 the GENOTA was commissioned in the Japanese Navy as OSE (Maru as given on the stamp is not correct.)
30 March 1944 she was also lost after attacks by USA airplanes and sank in position 07 30N 134 30E near Palau.
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