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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Dutch cargo-passenger ship Crijnssen 1918-1942

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk

Laid down as Prins Maurit, renamed for launching. Launched by Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 283 on 3 October 1918, delivered to manager Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij N.V., owner N.V. Koninklijke West-Indische Maildienst, both at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 21 October 1919. Torpedoed while underway with passengers in ballast from Curacao towards New Orleans, USA by German submarine in the Caribbean on 10 June 1942. 

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