Picture of the S.S. Tjileboet (1918-1942), a 5760 grt vessel of the Java-China-Japan Line, which stranded on April 5th 1927 on its way from Hong Kong to Singapore, was salvaged, and received a new foreship. It was sunk by the German submarine U 161 on 25 July 1942.
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