Dewarutji
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:36 pm
CADET SHIP DEWARUTJI
by PETER BOLTON
An issue of August 1995 from Indonesia brings us a new cadet sailing ship on a stamp in the form of DEWARUTJI.
The occasion was the 50th Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Indonesia (50 Tahun RI on the stamp) and the event was Sail Indonesia (Arung Samudera) with a race 460 miles along the North coast of Java to finish in Jakarta.
DEWARUTJI was the winner on corrected time ahead of the Chilean ESMERALDA. Among those taking part were KAIWO MARU from Japan and the Australian YOUNG ENDEAVOUR (all are on stamps)
DEWARUTJI was built of steel for the Indonesian Government in 1953 at Hamburg and is a three masted barquentine, crossing five yards on the foremast and displacing 886 tons. She has an auxilliary in the form of a 600hp MAN diesel and carries a crew of 32 with 78 cadets. She is very similar to the slightly smaller Yugoslav JADRAN (Yugoslavia SG405) which was built some 20 years earlier by the same yard.
The smaller vessel in the background of the stamp is one of six local 'Pinisi' which took part in the race in a class of their own. These are still very much in evidence as working boats in Indonesia and are still
built entirely "by eye" on some of the islands - one of the busiest places where they can bee seen is Lombok Island next to Bali, where towering deck cargoes of pumice in bags is taken to Sumatra (2-3 days under sail) for onward shipment for grinding up to use in scouring powders. A Pinisi on Indonesia SG1562 shows two masts but nowadays they usually have a single tripod mast.
Log Book June 1997
Indonesia SG2188, 2189ms (I do not have the stamps)
by PETER BOLTON
An issue of August 1995 from Indonesia brings us a new cadet sailing ship on a stamp in the form of DEWARUTJI.
The occasion was the 50th Anniversary of the Peoples Republic of Indonesia (50 Tahun RI on the stamp) and the event was Sail Indonesia (Arung Samudera) with a race 460 miles along the North coast of Java to finish in Jakarta.
DEWARUTJI was the winner on corrected time ahead of the Chilean ESMERALDA. Among those taking part were KAIWO MARU from Japan and the Australian YOUNG ENDEAVOUR (all are on stamps)
DEWARUTJI was built of steel for the Indonesian Government in 1953 at Hamburg and is a three masted barquentine, crossing five yards on the foremast and displacing 886 tons. She has an auxilliary in the form of a 600hp MAN diesel and carries a crew of 32 with 78 cadets. She is very similar to the slightly smaller Yugoslav JADRAN (Yugoslavia SG405) which was built some 20 years earlier by the same yard.
The smaller vessel in the background of the stamp is one of six local 'Pinisi' which took part in the race in a class of their own. These are still very much in evidence as working boats in Indonesia and are still
built entirely "by eye" on some of the islands - one of the busiest places where they can bee seen is Lombok Island next to Bali, where towering deck cargoes of pumice in bags is taken to Sumatra (2-3 days under sail) for onward shipment for grinding up to use in scouring powders. A Pinisi on Indonesia SG1562 shows two masts but nowadays they usually have a single tripod mast.
Log Book June 1997
Indonesia SG2188, 2189ms (I do not have the stamps)