Qualla: SS Slamat https://qualla.com/ss-slamat en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: SS Slamat https://qualla.com/ss-slamat SS Slamat: Introduction https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. She came out of Vlissingen in 1924 wearing dove-grey paint and a reputation for the long haul. Her builders, Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, had laid her keel on the banks of the River Scheldt and fitted her with steam turbines driving twin screws — a twin-screw steamship, dubbelschroefstoomschip, which gave her the designation DSS Slamat in the registers of Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd. At 17 knots she was built for endurance, not speed: the Rotterdam-to-Batavia run, some 12,000 miles of ocean, demanded exactly that. For fifteen years she worked those routes with the unhurried confidence of a ship that knew her purpose.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/sw86-ss-slamat-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SS Slamat: Born on the Scheldt https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The Scheldt had been building ships since the age of sail, and De Schelde's yard at Vlissingen carried that tradition forward into the era of oil-burning turbine steamers. Slamat was equipped with submarine signalling apparatus — the 1920s saw it as a credible alternative to radi...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/sw86-ss-slamat-born-on-the-scheldt.mp3 0:06 2 full SS Slamat: Dove-Grey to Wartime Grey https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. When the Second World War began, the Netherlands declared neutrality. In mid-October 1939 Slamat left Rotterdam for the East Indies on what looked like a routine voyage, and reached Batavia on 30 November. From Batavia she sailed for Italy — also still neutral — arriving in Genoa...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/sw86-ss-slamat-dove-grey-to-wartime-grey.mp3 0:06 3 full SS Slamat: The Long Detour https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. For the next several months Slamat and Indrapoera worked the Indian Ocean troop routes, threading between Suez, Haifa, and various points east. It was unglamorous work for a ship built to carry passengers in comfort — the dove-grey livery was gone, the peacetime schedule abandone...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/sw86-ss-slamat-the-long-detour.mp3 0:06 4 full SS Slamat: The Last Night at Anchor https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. On the evening of 26 April 1941 three cruisers, four destroyers, the troopship Khedive Ismail, and Slamat were in the Bay of Nauplia. Two cruisers and two destroyers managed to embark nearly 2,500 troops, but the rate was too slow. Khedive Ismail took on no troops at all. Slamat ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/6/ss-slamat-wp/sw86-ss-slamat-the-last-night-at-anchor.mp3 0:06 5 full SS Slamat: What Remained https://qualla.com/ss-slamat/ Photo credit Greece_location_map.svg: Lencer / derivative work: Uwe Dedering (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. The survivors who made it into Wryneck's whaler reached Crete in stages: first to Ananes Rock, about 13 nautical miles southeast of Milos, where they found a caïque carrying Greek refugees and British soldiers sailing only at night. Then south to Crete, five men towed in the whal...

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