Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk
Laid down by Dok- en Werf Maatschappij Wilton-Fijenoord N.V., Schiedam, Netherlands with yard number 663 on 22 December 1937, launched on 27 August 1938, delivered to the owner/manager N.V. Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij 'Holland-Amerika Lijn', Rotterdam, Netherlands on 21 December 1938, converted into a troop transport for the British Ministry of War Transport underway from Cape Town, South Africa towards New York, USA torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 1774 in the South Atlantic on 2 November 1942.
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