Dutch cargo ship Maasdijk 1920-1935 (Chubar 1935-1939, Alma-Ata 1938-1959)

Maritiem Museum Rotterdam 22 September 2022

Detail of the Panorama Burgerhout, painted by Adolf Bock (5 August 1890 Berlin, Germany-13 January 1968 Helsingborg, Sweden) in 1928 for account of Burgerhout’s Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Launched by Burgerhout’s Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands for Solleveld, Van der Meer en T.H. van Hattum’s Stoomvaart-Maatschappij, Rotterdam with yard number 60 on 23 October 1920, delivered on 11 December 1920 since July 1930 of N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederlanshe Lloyd, Rotterdam, sold to Chernomorskye Gosudarstvyennoye Morskoye Parokhodstvo, Odessa, Soviet Union/Ukraine and renamed Chubar in May 1935, renamed Alma-Ata in 1938, converted into a fishery mother ship in the Black Sea, since 1940 of Dal’ryba, Vladivostok, Russia and sold to be broken up in 1959. Gross tonnage 3,611 tons, net tonnage 2,179 tons, deadweight 6,550 tons, grain capacity 373,000 cubic feet, bale capacity 348,000 cubic feet and as dimensions 360.20 x 50.30 x 21.80 feet.