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Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Dutch cargo ship Strabo 1937-1942

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijken

Launched by Launched by N.V. C. van der Giessen & Zonen’s Scheepswerven, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Netherlands with yard number 646 in 1937, delivered to manager Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij N.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands, owner N.V. West-Indische Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Willemstad (NA), Netherlands Antilles on 14 July 1937 and sunk by the German submarine U 155 with gunfire while underway from Sao Luiz de Maranhao, Brazil towards Barranquilla, Colombia 250 miles east of Georgetown, Guyana (Co-operative Republic of Guyana) on 10 August 1942. 

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