Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk
3-Island type. Laid down for own account/risk in 1929, launched by Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 448 in 1930, trial on 26 May 1930 and delivered same day to owner/manager N.V. Maatschappij Vrachtvaart, Rotterdam and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 96 on the Atlantic Ocean underway from Sydney, Australia to Oban [Scotland?]part of convoy HX 92 on 11 December 1940.
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