Dutch cargo-passenger ship Dempo 1929-1944

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk

Dempo leaving the Dokhaven towards the Buitenkeersluis 11 February 1931. Zeeuws Archief, Fotocollectie Vlissingen No. 34895

Ordered on 1 January 1928, laid down by Kon. Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands with yard number 189 on 15 July 1929, launched on 26 July 1930, trials 13/20 February 1931, delivered to the N.V. Rotterdamsche Lloyd, manager Firma Wm. Ruys&Zonen, both at Rotterdam, Netherlands on 21 February 1931 and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-371 as troop transport part of convoy SNF 17 underway from Naples, Italy towards North Africa between Algiers and Philippeville (Skikda, Algeria on 17 March 1944.