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Tuesday 29 January 2013

Former German merchant ships adjudged to Dutch shipping companies according to the Dutch newspaper Amigoe di Curacao dated 23 August 1946

An item reported that the 35 ships which were recently by the Dutch cabinet adjudged to the Dutch shipping companies included six former German ships which were interned in Curacao, Surinam and the Dutch East Indies at the outbreak of the Second World War and since then Dutch-flagged. These former German ships were the 3.164 ton Henry Horn of the Horn Line and which was transferred as the Bonaire to the KNSM and further more the 8.269 ton Vancouver, the 3.979 ton Patricia and 6.747 ton Wuppertal of the HAPAG renamed Curaçao (HAL) respectively Aruba (KNSM) and Noesaniwi (Rotterdamse Lloyd) and the former HANSA ships 7.862 ton Hohenfels and 3.056 ton Soneck renamed Ruisdael (Verenigde Nederlandse Scheepvaart Maatschappij) and Karsik (KPM).