Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk, Netherlands
Engines and boilers ordered on 9 April 1915, laid down by A. Vuyk&Zonen, Cappelle aan den IJssel, Netherlands with yard number 446 17 June 1916, arrived at Kon. Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands on 23 December 1916, trail while berthed on 30 January 1917, trial on 25 March 1917 and delivered to manager Firma Vinke & Co., (1932 Firma Warnderink Vinke & Zoon, 1947 Firma Vinke & Zonen), owner N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Oostzee', both at Amsterdam, Netherlands, seized by the U.S. Navy-Naval Overseas Transportation Service, New York (N.Y.), U.S.A. between 21 March 1918-May 1919 before retuning to her owner and torpedoed by the German submarine U 100 loaded with grain underway from Montreal, Canada via Sydney C.S. towards Belfast, Northern Ireland as part of convoy SC 11 about 90 miles west of Tory Island and abandoned on 23 November 1940, found back by the British tug Salvonia nut sunk before she could be towed to safety.
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