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Friday, 10 April 2026

Dutch cargo ship Polyphemus 1930-1942

Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk

Launched by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd, Greenock, Scotland with yard number 549 on 8 August 1930, delivered to the Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij ‘Oceaan’ N.V., manager Firma Meyer&Co., shareholder Ocean Steam ship Company Ltd., all at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 3 March 1930 and torpedoed by the German submarine U578 468 miles south of New York, USA on the position 38.12 North and 63.22 West on 26 May 1942. She was underway from Sydney, Australia via the Panama canal and Halifax towards Liverpool, England. 

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