She was owned by Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM) of Batavia, Dutch East Indies.

She escaped the Dutch Netherlands during the invasion of the Imperial Japanese and set off to Sydney, Australia.

She operated in northern New Guinea which including Oro Bay, Milne Bay, Finchafen, Lae and Aitape and Hollandia, then delivering the patients back to Brisbane, Australia for treatments in early 1944.

On 23 June, AHS Maetsuycker while off Bosnik, took onboard Captain Cyrus Taylor of PT-193 in who sadly died from his wounds aboard the ship.

[2] After the war, she was refitted in 1947 and passed ownership to the Royal Interocean Lines (KJCPL) in Amsterdam renamed, sold to several owners and renamed again Tong Han, Gavina, Paceco, Gambela, Gamsolo and Hysan from 1960 to 1971.