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SS. Nieuw Holland



MS. Modjokerto




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One of the smaller vessels of Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij. of Amsterdam

1948, 1331grt

Gebr. Pot, Bolnes (914) for the Dutch Government

12 cabin and 353 deck passengers

Transferred to K.P.M. in 1952

1959 BRAVO, Panama

1965 TELUK WAP, Indonesia

1968 RUPIT, Indonesia

Broken up in 1984

1926, 3164grt

Reiherstieg Schiffswerft, Hamburg (578) as WALDTRAUT HORN

1936 PRESIDENT GOMEZ

1936 HENRY HORN

Seized at Curacao 11/5/1940

1940 BONAIRE, Dutch Government (K.N.S.M.)

1946 transferred to K.N.S.M.

Arrived at Hendrik Ido Ambacht for breaking on 27/11/1957

1922, 10171grt, 143.9m. x 18.0m

215 1st., 110 2nd, 1000 3rd. class passengers

Barclay, Curle, Glasgow (594)

Served the Buenos Aires route until sold to C.G.T. in 1936 and renamed BRETAGNE

for employment on their West Indies services

Torpedoed and sunk by U.45 on 14/10/1939, 300 nautical miles west of Lands End

1919, 4298grt

Maats. Fijenoord, Rotterdam (283) for Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoom. Maats.

(laid down as PRINS MAURITS)

Torpedoed and sunk by U.504 on 10/6/1942 in position 18.14N 85.11W

1913, 13868grt, 170.7m. x 20.05m

230 1st., 224 2nd., 140 3rd. and 900 steerage class passengers

Alexander Stephen, Linthouse (454)

Maiden voyage Amsterdam - Buenos Aires in November 1913

Laid up in Amsterdam 1916-1918

Chartered to Rotterdam Lloyd for Batavia services in 1921

Chartered to Argentine Government in 1933

Sold to Lloyd Triestino in 1935 and renamed GRADISCA

Used as a troopship and hospital ship in the Abyssinian War

and as a hospital ship from 1940, under Italian then German control.

Became a British war prize in 1946, under Ellerman management

Broken up at Venice in 1950

Additional info. 'Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd' L.L.Von Munching and 'Great Passenger Ships of the World' A.Kludas

1940, 10549grt

P.Smit Jnr., Rotterdam (532) for Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Maats.

Seized by German forces at Rotterdam, taken into the German Navy 3/1941

Target ship and later used for refugee voyages (possibly under the name PIONIER)

Returned to VNSM in 7/1945

Renamed FONTEIN for delivery to breakers at Bilbao, arrived 11/8/1967

1927, 12226grt, twin screw motorship, 17 knots

'De Schelde', Vlissingen (181) for Rotterdamsche Lloyd

215 1st., 174 2nd. and 68 3rd. class passengers

Rotterdam - Batavia service

Served as an Allied troopship 1940 - 1946

1947 Koninklijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd

Post-war ran to Sydney, Quebec and New York as well as Indonesia

Arrived at Hong Kong for breaking on 25/8/1959

S.S. SANTA ROSA 1957
Foto: R.Turnwald

ASTURIAS 1925
In 1957 gesloopt.



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