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Sunday, 28 December 2025

Dutch general cargo ship Veerhaven 1929-1942

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk, Scheveningen

Launched by Wm. Gray&Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool, England with yard number 1032 on 18 December 1929, delivered to Manager N.V. Gebr. van Uden's Scheepvaart- en Agentuur Maatschappij, Rotterdam, Netherlands and owner N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Noordzee', Amsterdam, Netherlands in February 1930 and attacked with gunfire by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vincion 11 November 1942 while loaded with flax seed underway from Buenos Aires, Argentina towards Trinidad around 300 miles east of Natal, Brazil, after she was abandoned probably sunk on 13 or 14 November. 

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