The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to ...

Rear Admiral Karel Doorman (Dutch), Fleet Order ... of a large Japanese fleet approaching Java, the principal island of the Netherlands East Indies. A force including the American and British ...

At 3.22 pm on February 24, 1944, the Japanese ships Ryusei and Tango Maru sailed from Surabaya in Java headed for Ambon in the famous Moluccan spice islands of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).