#Tjilatjap

[lonestarbattleship]

"USS HOUSTON (CA-30) at Tjilatjap, Java, seen from the light cruiser USS MARBLEHEAD (CL-12), which was passing close aboard. HOUSTON's colours are half-masted pending return of her funeral party, ashore for burial of men lost when a bomb hit near her after 20.3 cm gun turret two days earlier during a Japanese air attack in Bangka Strait. The disabled turret is visible in the center of the view, being trained to port."

Date' February 6, 1942

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 82480

[juergenfeytiat]

Guttapercha und der Tote aus Borneo

Kein neuer Commissario Guttapercha Keine Sorge, Guttapercha ist nicht noch ein neuer “Commissario” und der Tote aus Borneo auch keine exotische Leiche. Aber eins nach dem anderen! Auf den Fahrten der „Fürth“ treffen wir einige Waren an, die heute weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten sind, wie zum Beispiel die Guttapercha oder auch nur kurz Gutta genannt. Wenn Sie nicht gerade in einem Dentallabor…

[sethshead]

I get old Indonesian spelling, since it used a modified Dutch orthography. I get new Indonesian spelling because it uses a modified English (considered internationally neutral?) orthography. Thus Jogjakarta becomes Yogyakarta, Tjilatjap becomes Cilacap. Easy peasy.

So why, in the 1930s, were the Dutch spelling the island now known as Jawa in Indonesian “Java”? “Java” is the traditional English spelling. Shouldn’t the Dutch have used the old Indonesian “Djawa”?

[dandonoriginal]

Selamat menempuh hidup baru Om Annas dan Tante Uus!

Minggu 21 feb 2021

Glempang, Tjilatjap, Jateng

[uss-edsall]

So, I looked into this out of curiosity. 

As part of the purple prose depicting the hurried evacuation from Tjilatjap and Surabaja on page 81 of A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall by Donald M. Kehn, the following is said:

After this question I got curious, so I bought the book mentioned in the footenote (Indonesia a travel survival kit). Aside from the footnote being to the wrong page and having to track it down

The source didn’t give much other information past what town it was near

So I looked for that and found the Mausoleum Cinta Pacitan. (Cinta translates to love, so it’s the Mausoleum of Love)

The inscription on the gravestone is in a code. 

The translation is:

“To my deeply beloved wife Djamijah. Born 1873 died December 12, 1901. O my Djamijah my rose of Sharon how can I express thee my love and respect? The whole world is thereto too small for me. Shall I ever see thee again? If there is a life hereafter thou must now be in Paradise. Thou were so good and were so much thrown with dirt. Therefore, I shall take the difficult road over Golgotha and find thee back. Till we meet again! “

The rear roof, facing north, has the inscription I’m looking for on it:

Instead of ‘Gegaan Maar Niet Vergeten’ like A Blue Sea of Blood cited, it is ‘Verlaten Maar Niet Vergeten’. That, but also, instead of being a memorial that "recalls the lost colonial empire, culture, and society of the Dutch East Indies" that Kehn extrapolated from Indonesia a travel survival kit’s scant passage it is instead somebody’s grave, someone who died forty years before WWII came to what is now Indonesia. So the meaning it had - and my further meaning of using it in remembrance of the Edsall - is kind of... not actually there.

Yo hi not sure how to say this but your blog title:

Did you mean to make the slightly weird vocab choice there? Not sure if you speak Dutch or not… (since the Dutch have the Zeeland that makes New Zealand “new”) but I think you meant “vergaan maar niet vergeten” and not “gegaan maar niet vergeten”???

As in “gegaan” is like ‘went somewhere’ (past tense and implies a person who can maybe still return) and “vergaan” is like ‘went/was left to die/was lost forever’ (either by rotting away of old age or by being taken by the sea and never seen again, can be said about a person or thing but most often used to refer to ships)…

Anyway! Groetjes from a Dutchie :)

Hey! No I don’t speak Dutch, though I appreciate the point to make. My blog title comes from a book about the USS Edsall (DD-219). The book notes that there’s a memorial to the lost sailors of WWII in Pacitan, Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) that has ‘Gegaan Maar Niet Vergeten’ inscribed upon it. Interpreting it as either ‘gone but not forgotten’ or ‘gone but never forgotten,’ I thought it made a good blog title when this blog was a little more focused on historical stuff. Coincidentally, today is the 81st anniversary of the USS Edsall’s sinking on 1 March 1942, 250 miles off of Christmas Island.

[manusiapencaribahu]

Benteng Pendem Cilacap

Benteng Pendem adalah hasil lokalisasi dari nama Kusbatterij op de Lantong te Tjilatjap yang berarti “Beteng Pantai di Teluk Cilacap”. Benteng ini merupakan bentuk pertahanan yang dibangun pada masa kolonial Belanda, tepatnya pada tahun 1861 hingga 1879. Terdapat dua Benteng Pendem di Cilacap, yang satunya berada di Pulau Nusakambangan.

Untuk tiket masuk benteng, sebesar Rp 7.500/orang dengan jam operasional pukul 08.00-18.00. Di dalam benteng ini, terdapat beberapa bagian bangunan, seperti bangunan klinik, penjara, ruangan senjata, ruang pertemuan, dan aula. Bangunan benteng di kelilingi oleh parit-parit lebar yang awalnya digunakan sebagai pertahanan. Namun sekarang dapat dinikmati pengunjung untuk berkeliling menggunakan perahu atau sepeda air. Salah satu yang menarik di benteng ini adalah adanya terowongan yang terendam air dan kabarnya tersambung ke Pulau Nusakambangan. Terowongan ini dapat disusuri oleh pengunjung, namun hanya sebagian kecilnya saja dan harus dengan pemandu.

Selain bangunan beneng, terdapat juga kandang rusa yang dapat dikunjungi oleh pengunjung yang datang. Fasilitas yang tersedia pun cukup lengkap, dengan adanya warung-warung makan, kamar mando, mushola, dan toko penjualan souvenir.

[lex-for-lexington]

“USS Marblehead (CL-12). Bow-on view, at New York Navy Yard, N.Y., May 1942 while there for repairs and refit after returning from the southwest Pacific theater. Her bow was slightly bent (8" to starboard) in a collision with the Dutch harbor tug Kraus at Tjilatjap, Java, on 13 February 1942. Note crew painting ship (top); also anchors.”

(NHHC: 80-G-13822)

[nariomaris]

Selamat menempuh hidup baru Om Annas dan Tante Uus!

Minggu 21 feb 2021

Glempang, Tjilatjap, Jateng

[uss-langley]

Tjilatjap was only about 100 miles away from Java, but it might as well have been a million miles away on Jupiter. Commander McConnell stood on the bridge, seething with rage at the incompetence that had just doomed his ship and his crew. A pawn of war was needlessly about to be sacrificed. The skipper told Commander Divoll that it might be a good time to say something to the crew about the imminent air attack. The popular executive officer picked up the microphone: “Boys, I’m just a little bit scared. We’re going to catch hell and I want everybody to concentrate and do his job. I wish you all the best of luck.”

Rising Sun, Falling Skies, by Jeffrey R. Cox

The USS Langley’s mission to deliver badly-needed P-40 Warhawks and other supplies to Java required that it arrive in Tjilatjap early in the morning, to avoid daytime attacks from unopposed Japanese air forces. However, Allied political maneuvering and meddling from Dutch Admiral Helfrich had forced her to zigzag between rendezvous points all night long, putting her well behind schedule. As a result, the Langley and her escorting destroyers Edsall and Whipple found themselves on open ocean, in broad daylight, in range of Japanese air bases. They were quickly spotted by a Japanese scout plane, and 6 hours later Langley would slip beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean.

[paktung79]

Kalau kemarin pekalongan tjilatjap bisa 4jaman .. Sekarang Pekalongan Jogja juga bisa 4jaman ... Rute baru pekalongan klaten 3jam via tol boyolali .. Klaten jogja 1 jam mlipir ... #seduluranSelawase #loveandpeaceforever https://www.instagram.com/p/B51KES0nljUtSHXur2Znmt2MS7fAKGhstygW1A0/?igshid=tiv5xazq4u2l

[potolawas]

Kereta melakukan perjalanan pertama dari Tjilatjap ke Meloewong pada 9 Desember 1947. Nampak seorang pria berpakaian adat Jawa berbicara dengan Van Gessel dari Staats Spoorwegen di peron stasiun kereta api Kawoenganten. Ca. 9 Desember 1947. . 📷: Nationaal Archief - @potolawas . . ⤴Follow💟Like 💬Comment 👥Tag 🔄Repost ============================= >> @potolawas << ❤ >> @potolawas << >> @potolawas << ❤ >> @potolawas << >> @potolawas << ❤ >> @potolawas << ============================= . . #potolawas #potolawascilacap #cilacap #cilacapkota #cilacapbercahaya #explorecilacap #wisatacilacap #visitcilacap #pesonacilacap #infocilacap #kawunganten #kawungantencilacap https://www.instagram.com/p/BxU15JKARzu/?igshid=1oko70vo5jh9m

[juergenfeytiat]

In Tjilatjap

In Tjilatjap

Im Süden der Insel Java Heute führen uns die Reisen des Dampfschiffes „Fürth“, einem Frachtdampfer der Deutsch-Australischen Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft Hamburg (DADG), nach Tjilatjap. Tjilatjap liegt im Süden der Insel Java, die vor der Unabhängigkeit Indonesiens zu Niederländisch-Indien gehörte. Die Stadt heißt heute offiziell Cilacap, in englischen Quellen wurde auch die Schreibweise Chilachap…

[tin-can-sailor-blog]

On March 1, 1942, USS Edsall (DD-219) was sailing towards Tjilatjap, having split off from USS Pecos (AO-6) and sister ship Whipple (DD-217) the day before. She was carrying the 32 P-40 Warhawk pilots that had been aboard Langley, sunk two days earlier. She had acknowledged her orders, taken the pilots, and sailed over the horizon... Never to be seen again by Allied forces.

Around noon on 1 March, Pecos came under attack by the same ships who sank Langley -- the aerocraft of Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu, and Akagi. You may recognize those names as four of the six carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor. She broadcasted many distress signals, the last (and most defiant) being:

“LONG 10630 PICK UP SURVIVORS CQ CQ DE NIFQ SENDING BLIND SENDING BLIND CASNAY RAD US NAVY SENDING CQ CQ DE NIFQ COM LAT 1430 LONG 10630 PICK SURVIVORS OF LANGLEY AND PECOS CQ CQ DE NIFQ SINKING RAPIDLY AND THE JAPS ARE COMING BACK TO GIVE US ANOTHER DOSE OF WHAT THE U.S. IS GOING TO GIVE BACK IN LARGE QUANTITIES.”

It is unknown if Edsall heard them. It is known that Whipple heard them and returned, picking up 232 survivors before a submarine forced her to leave. 

From Japanese logs and reports, author Donald M. Kehn, Jr, in the book A Blue Sea of Blood, was able to figure out Edsall’s fate. She was found just 24 nautical miles away from Pecos’ survivors, by the Kido Butai -- the Japanese fleet. Against eight destroyers, a light cruiser, two heavy cruisers, two battleships, and four aircraft carriers, the little Edsall found herself between a rock and a hard place.

Unable to run due to previous damage forcing her to lose speed, her captain, Cdr. Joshua J. Nix, chose to fight. 

It would take two hours before she finally sank, having dodged over 1,335 shells between 8″ and 14″ in calibre. It took dive bombers from three of four aircraft carriers to finally disable her.

And in the process, she saved the lives of those who were rescued by Whipple -- at the cost of the 157 officers and men aboard Edsall, and their 32 aviator cargo.

[fluffmugger]

Today marks 75 years since the Battle of Sunda Strait, which began late into the night on 28 February 1942. On this date, the HMAS Perth and the USS Houston  received orders to sail from Tanjung Priok in Java through the Sunda Strait to Tjilatjap.  There were no enemy encounters expected.     That same night the Imperial Japanese Army's Western Java Invasion Convoy — over 50 transports, accompanied by the 5th Destroyer Flotilla and the 7th Cruiser Division with twelve destroyers and five cruisers - entered Bantam Bay. The Perth suffered her first hit from a Japanese shell at 11.26pm, and was sunk alongside the Houston in the very early hours of 1 March 1942 after hours of ferocious fighting.  She lost 352 crew and all 320 survivors of the sinking became prisoners of war.  Of these, 105 died in Japanese prison camps.  One of those killed during the battle was Robert Charles Naismith, a mechanician.  My great-grandfather.  Lest we forget.

[uss-edsall]

When the destroyer Edsall was en route to Tjilatjap with the Army personnel from the Langley, Lt. Nix sent a message at 11:18 p.m. to Cdr. Edwin Crouch on the Whipple: “Do you have any further orders for me? Any information on conditions in Tjilatjap?” Cdr. Crouch replied: “Your 2318 negative proceed Tjilatjap. Suggest you keep well off coast today run in about speed twenty tonight to arrive dawn tomorrow.” The message apparently was acknowledged but that was the last anyone ever heard from the Edsall and neither the ship nor anyone aboard was ever seen or heard from again. Later that day the Whipple intercepted a message to the Edsall directing Lt. Nix to head for Exmouth Gulf, Australia, but no reply was heard. On March 1 the crew of the Edsall was declared missing and on November 25, 1945, all were presumed lost.

The Last Days of the United States Asiatic Fleet, by Greg H. Williams

[robertkingsleyposts]

The Loss of the 'Langley'

And the final curtain in Java

From:https://thejavagoldblog.wordpress.com/ USS Langley and USAT Seawitch sailed on February 22, 1942 as part of convoy MS-5. But that same night Langley’s skipper, Commander Robert P. McConnell received a direct order from Vice-Admiral Helfrich (by now ABDA naval commander in chief), to leave the convoy and at his best possible speed – which was 13 knots – set a direct course for Tjilatjap, a port on Java’s south coast that was still relatively safe.  The plan called for USS Langley to reach Tilatjap in the afternoon of February 27, risking a daylight arrival. The  Langley lost precious hours in steaming on various courses waiting for escorts that never turned up. She finally teamed up with two damaged destroyers, USS Whipple (DD-217) and USS Edsall (DD-219), and started her final run in but the time lost proved to be fatal.

At 11:40 in the morning of February 27, at a point about 75 miles from Tjilatjap, nine Japanese Mitsubishi G4M bombers appeared over the ships. Their commander, Lt. Jiro Adachi, immediately singled out the Langley as the important target. The Langley took three hits that set fire to the P-40’s on deck and the drums of gasoline that were stowed between them. Then a fourth and a fifth bomb hit increased the conflagration, near misses buckled the hull and water was rushing inside.

Escorting Zero fighters strafed the decks of the burning ship and soon, the Langley was a raging mass of unquenchable fires. Listing badly and out of control and Commander McConnell ordered abandon ship. Out of a crew of 300, 16 were killed and the survivors were taken aboard the escorting destroyers. To prevent the Langley from falling into Japanese hands, they used torpedoes and 4 Inch shells to sink her.