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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Dutch cargo ship (ex-Nieuwkerk 1928-1934) Boschfontein 1934-1956 (Boschkerk 1956-1958)

As Boschfontein. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Shipyard Kon.Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen 12 November 1934. 

 Zeeuws Archief, Kon. Mij. De Schelde, collectie 7513, nr 3329

Launched as passenger-cargo ship by Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr. N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 418 in 1928, delivered on 15 October 1928 to owner/manager N.V. Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij, The Hague, Netherlands rebuilt by Kon.Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands in November 1934 and renamed Boschfontein, renamed Boschkerk in November 1956, badly damaged in a fire on 19 October 1958 and sold to be broken up at Hamburg, Germany in December 1958 arriving there on 26 December. 

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