H. A. Cartwright
Jl. Perak No. 14
Bandung
West Java
Indonesia

Hi, Michel!
mjrhoude@gmail.com

Reference your fine collection

For many years I have been researching and compiling a book on the
history of the Straits Steamship Co., Ltd., once of Singapore. I have
unearthed a lot of information and have a good collection of stamps,
covers and photographs.
To prevent any possible hiccups, I am sending five separate attachments.

I would like to forward the following information for inclusion in your
website.

Regards,
Hal Cartwright.

ShipID01 CARLYLE. Steamship.
Official Number: 115217. Built: 1901. Gross/net/reg.: 475/229/229.
Shipbuilder: Selby Shipbuilding Company, Selby, England. Yard Number: 49.
18-03-1902 Owned by Steamship “Carlyle” Co. Ltd., Exchange Buildings,
Liverpool, England.
18-03-1902 Sold to Straits Steamship Co. Ltd. for £11,250. Registered at
Singapore.
1916 Sold to Steam Traders Ltd., 41 Eastcheap, London, for £10,600.
1917 Sunk by submarine 5 miles WSW of Ile de Seine Lighthouse. NW coast
of France.

ShipsID02 HYE LEONG. Steamship.
She carried mail to the Malay east coast. Ref: Proud’s Vol. 1 page 54.
Official Number: 86702. Built: 1883. Gross/net/reg.: 494/296/302.
Shipbuilder: Blackwood & Gordon, Port Glasgow, Scotland. Yard Number: 178.
1883 Built for Wee Bin & Co., Singapore.
1887 Sold to Tan Beng Gam, Singapore.
03-02-1890 Transferred to Straits Steamship Co. Ltd.
06-07-1926 Broken up at Singapore.

ShipID04 Possibly TERESA? Steamship.
Official Number: 91940. Built: 1886. Gross/net/reg.: 1177/753/---.
Shipbuilder: Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Grangemouth, Scotland. Yard
Number: 79.
1886 Built for J. W. Adamson, London, England.
1888 Sold to Guthrie & Co., Singapore.
1888 Sold to Wee Bin & Co. (later became Ho Hong SS Co. Ltd.).
1936 Broken up.
1888, Wee Bin ships were operating between Singapore and Bali, the
Celebes, Moluccas, North Borneo and the Malay ports of Klang, Telok
Anson and Port Dickson. To bring in hundreds of Chinese migrants, Wee
Bin Line ran a ship three or four times a week from Swatow and Amoy, via
Hong Kong, to Singapore.

ShipM010 Mahidol. Steamship.
Official Number: 151964. Built: 1908. Gross/net/reg.: 753/474/440.
Shipbuilder: Kjobenhavn’s Fldk & Skbs., Copenhagen, Denmark. Yard
Number: 72.
1908 Built for the Siam Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., Bangkok, Siam, as
Mahidol.
25-04-1924 Sold to Straits Steamship.
30-10-1936 Stranded and wrecked on Kemaman Bar, at the entrance to the
Chao Phraya River leading into Bangkok.

ShipSA010 Sappho. Steamship.
Owned by Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Singapore. Not Straits Steam Shipping.
Official Number: 93754. Built: 1887. Gross/net/reg.: 532/329/327.
Shipbuilder: Scott & Company, Greenock, Scotland. Yard Number: 253.
1887 Built for Ocean Steam Ship Co. Ltd. Registered at Liverpool, England.
05-08-1890 Transferred to Straits Steamship.
07-04-1923 Sold to Menam Pilots Association, Bangkok, Siam. Used as a
pilot hulk anchored off the bar of the Menam river (approaches to Bangkok).
1928 Broken up.

I think the following are confirmations of your ‘need to identify list
1-50’.

ID Number POSSIBLE IDENTIFICATION SOURCE
ID007 Stephens Paul & Co. Penang List of Jurors 1904
ID011 Kennedy & Co. Same
IDO14 Pritchard & Co. Same
ID015 possible Straits Cold Storage Limited?
Straits Trading Co. Limited?
Straits Ice Co. Limited?
ID018 possible Alexander Stuart
Registrat of Imports Exports Singapore List of Jurors 1904
ID032 J. Dalmann & Co. Singapore List of Jurors 1904
ID001 and ID013
possible L. J. Marsh?
ID038 Rigold Bergman & Co.
Change Alley, Singapore. Singapore List of Jurors 1904
ID047 A. A. Anthony & Co. Penang List of Jurors 1904
ID154
In the Penang List of Jurors of 1904, there is listed a ‘James Lawrie
Woodford” Merchant, Beach Street, Penang. Could this be his firm’s stamp?
B265
In the same List of Penang Jurors, there are three ‘Browns’, but only
one named as John Robertson Brown, assistant at David Brown & Company,
Glugor, Penang.
ID020 PAKAN?

Official Number: 82618. Built: 1882. Gross/net/reg.: 121/---/---.
1882 Built for Song Soon Guan, Singapore.
1887 Sold to Wee Bin & Co.
07-09-1901 Wrecked in Durian Straits, Riouw Archipelago, NEI. Bound
Singapore to Jambi.