[1] Van Nes escorted the submarine K XIII back to Surabaya, to be repaired there after the vessel was damaged as a result of a battery explosion in Singapore harbor, on 21 December 1941.

After tracking both ships for another 30 minutes on high altitudes, outside of Van Nes' AA range, the scout left.

Just after the scout plane left, Van Nes spotted a ship at a great distance which was identified as an enemy destroyer or cruiser.

At 15:30, Van Nes suffered two direct hits; one on the stern and one amidships, causing the ship to break in two and sink.

If the planes wouldn't be enough to take out Van Nes the Japanese had heavy cruiser Chōkai and destroyers Shirakumo and Isonami ready to engage her before she could have reached her destination.

[4] On the morning of 19 February, a scout plane reported floating survivors 100 miles (160 km) from Tanjung Priok.

At 12:15, a British destroyer was ordered out of Priok, at full speed to the location reported by the scout plane, but returned at 19:00, without sighting any survivor or wreckage.

Before sending out more sea planes became impossible, due to an increasing number of attacks on Tanjung Priok, 226 survivors were rescued.