Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk, Scheveningen
Stadsarchief Amsterdam, April 1934
Laid down by the N.V. Nederlandsche Scheepsbouw-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands with yard number 229 on 17 October 1933, launched on 21 July 1934, delivered to manger/owner N.V. Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaartmaatschappij, The Hague, Netherlands on 18 December 1934 and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 107 while underway from Galveston, USA (departed on 18 June) off the Bermuda’s, Atlantic Ocean on 26 June 1942.
According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673 sent by the office of armament the Royal Netherlands Navy located at 41 East 42nd Street, New York 17, USA. There were no complete records available, so there were several sources used to compile the list. Sometimes the kind of guns gave indirect information regarding the origin such as 4”/BL and 12 pounder guns were British mostly supplied in the United Kingdom, Canada or Curacao. The 4.7” guns were old Japanese guns placed on some vessels in the begin of the war at Singapore and some 4” guns in the same period at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The trade in which the ship was used gave also an indication were the guns were supplied, for example involved in the Pacific trade means supplied at the West Coast.
Armed with 3-2cm guns supplied at New York on 6 June 1942
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
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