ORIGINAL: Don Bowen
Looking for artwork for the RAFA (Royal Air Force Auxiliary)
Tung Song. This was a 178-foot steamer requisitioned from the Singapore Straits Shipping Company and was functioning as a tender to the Catalinas of No. 205 Squadron at Singapore. As far as I can tell, she was the only British Seaplane Tender in the Pacific at the start of the war.
Certainly one of the ugliest boats you could have found.
Tung Song, renamed RAF Ann, Straits Steamship Coy., originally Kheng Seng Steamship Coy., near sisters Raub and Gemas. Your picture has the stern cut off, so ... She was 183 some odd feet, with a counter transom. Graphic coming to a Don Bowen email, near you.
Ciao. John