Exhibition Varen voor Vrijheid. Museum Katwijk
Laid down by De Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 142 on 19 February 1927, launched on 5 January 1928, delivered to owner/manager N.V. Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 11 April 1928, chartered by Britsh BMWT, coverted into a troop transport at Singapore, first voyage begun on 17 September 1940, requisitioned by the Dutch government and torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 380 on the position 35.59 North-03.45 West while underway from Arzeu, Algeria towards Gibraltar on 11 November 1942.
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