Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk
Launched by Harland and Wolff Ltd., Queens Islands, Glasgow, Scotland with yard number 650 on 18 November 1922, completed at Belfast, Northern Ireland, delivered to the owner/manager N.V. Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Holland-Amerika Lijn', Rotterdam, Netherlands on 29 March 1923, during the German invasion lying at Rotterdam and damaged by fire on 11 May 1940, seized by Germans on 11 May 1941, brought to Hamburg, German on 30 May 1941, managed by HAPAG since 21 June to accommodate personnel of the German Organisation Todt at Gotenhafen [Gdynia, Poland], returned to Hamburg on 28 April 1942, became barracks for submarine crews as Marine stützpunkt Tollerort since 1 May 1942, found back partly sunk and burned out at Hamburg in May 1945, towed to Amsterdam, arrival in 16 January 1946 and repaired by NDSM and arrived at Baltimore, USA to be broken up on 30 October 1953.
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