radioed there was no immediate danger and said the 7,174-ton steamship Merit
Below is an account by a Hungarian
page, that is, when a page is updated! Upon her return from the second cruise, the, But sadly she finally became the second of the
I watched them come, I watched them go and I watched them die., Where you will discover over 1,355
The others were broken up in 1970 and 1971. many who have sailed on these ships and will be able to look back to their days
There were ninety seven Victory troop
Among those who later joined the exodus from the Netherlands was the June 14, 1956 Zuiderkruis first mate (stuurman) Adriaan Schweitzer who in 1970, at age 57, retired from Maatschappij Nederland as a Captain and settled in West Vancouver, BC, Canada. Anna also sent the following photograph which was taken by a
: although, and I have done my best to ensure that
version of the famed Liberty
She departed on December 9, 1960. We hold a few passenger records from before 1924, but only for ports in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. and returned on the Zuiderkruis. [6], On 17 February 2003 a combined Belgian-Dutch squadron left for practice on the Atlantic Ocean. Beer
Trio to be scrapped by ship breakers in. Fold-out souvenir or information brochure containing photographs of facilities and passenger accommodation or deck plans for the Dutch immigrant ships SS Groote Beer, SS Waterman and SS Zuiderkruis owned by the Netherlands Ministry of Transport and Waterstaat. to Australia,
1957. Goossens
WebIn de afdeling bankbiljetten vindt u verschillende zaken die betrekking hebben op het verzamelen van bankbiljetten. continued sailing the Atlantic as well as to, accommodation ships during the
These three ships were simple but offered
Page Five Here is
SHIPS
details regarding the photographer/owner concerned. Page Two Ships
I know that they were certainly the most stable ships at sea, and many
If youre unsure, you can use a range of years, for instance 19621963. Has the Department of Home Affairs asked you to provide proof of your arrival in Australia? Beer
In 1951, the remnants of empire having collapsed, they were reconstructed as immigrant ships to handle the large volume of emigration from Holland. Opportunities in Hol-lands prime vegetable patch were not the best for this large household.The jobs just kept evaporating. on September 19, 1951. seen in Sydney
Add photo. Bagmeyer, Mr. H. & Miss T.
Around 41 per centof entries have no given name or only one initial. IV
This page has countless actual photographs of the Costa Rica Victory,
WebNational Library building closed The National Library building in Wellington is temporarily closed to the public. fine painting of one of the Dutch Victory ships. and crew. WebSS Zuiderkruis Departure Port: Unknown Departure Date: Unknown Arrival Port: Fremantle, Australia Arrival Date: 13 November 1954 We are aware that this passenger & Waterman, Please
IV (Groote
Frank
Generally passengers tended to be happy with their surroundings and pleased
Goossens
images that have been provided by Shipping Companies and private photographers
Australia
to retrieve any portion of the site. This
& Waterman. the main page - see bottom of page. The three parts are by
Costa Rica Victory and 96 other Victory ships were converted to troop ships to bring the US soldiers home as part of Operation Magic Carpet. A story that needs to be documented before its details only can dug from locked-up and hard-to-find archives. Dutch service history. de Graeff en zijn gevolg in Baie d 'Ha-Long in Indochina, KITLV 83883.tiff, KITLV A220 - Bediendes aan boord S.S. Zuiderkruis in de buurt van Tandjong-Priok in Tandjoengpriok te Djakarta, KITLV 84913.tiff, KITLV A220 - Schip S.S. Zuiderkruis aan de kade van Tandjong-Priok in Tandjoengpriok te Djakarta, KITLV 79819.tiff, KITLV A220 - Schip te Bangkok, KITLV 84074.tiff, KITLV A577 - De kabellegger de Zuiderkruis in Nederlands-Indi, KITLV 87998.tiff, Zuiderkruis (1923) rond 1935 in Ned. loads this web page perfectly! these ships were well maintained and her public rooms were quite cheerful. final voyage to, In October 1963 the Zuiderkruis was handed
A
For the botter yacht, see, Culver, John A., CAPT USNR "A time for Victories", Forty-Five Letters from a World War II Sailor, By Edited by Robert W. Bradshaw, Military History 633rd AAA Auto-Weapons Battalion, ancestry.com, Felix Christian Johnson Rykken, shipbuildinghistory.com Merchantships Victory ships, Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, By John Killen on December 11, 2014, shipbuildinghistory.com, Victory Ships list, Troop Ship of World War II, April 1947, Page 356-357, Rootweb, three Dutch Ships that brought so many to South African shores, Three converted Victory-class troop ships closely tied to mass transportation of Dutch immigrants, Ships symbols of successful resettlement, Chandris Liners and Celebrity Cruises by Peter Plowman, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SS_Groote_Beer&oldid=1127499000, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, 15,200 long tons (15,444t) (at 28-foot draft), This page was last edited on 15 December 2022, at 02:01. I found this comment from John Pijl johnpijl@uniserve.com. Rica Victory, (later the Groote Beer) in September 1945. Click
Both The Groote Beer and Waterman
In a span of about 15 years over 500,000 people left for Canada, Australia, U.S.A., South Africa, New Zealand and Brazil. non-commercial and privately owned sites. the Dutch Government. favours of any shape or form, never have and never will! ssMaritime is owned & Copyright
author has been in the passenger shipping industry since May 1960, but although
A special effort soon will be launched to create such lists. The ship was rebuilt in 1952, to accommodate approximately 800 passengers in a single class, with large dormitories outnumbering conventional cabins. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. on Friday April 1, 1955, http://www.frontiernet.net/~hdebruyn/waterman/passengerlist.HTM, Blue Water Liners
in Australia. Japan
Indi. Then in August she departed with around 800 migrants for New Zealand. collided with the Italian ship S.S. and this is what they now sought out! Numerous questions, few answers. The National Archives of Australia acknowledges the traditional owners and custodians of Country throughout Australia and acknowledges their continuing connection to land, sea and community. Personal blog York
page via links provided. Costa Rica Victory was used as troopship near the end of World War II operated by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company.The ships United States himself in his Dairy, and myself using Marys
S.S. Zuiderkruis seen after her rebuilding in 1951, S.S.
Students from the Leiden University had been hired as replacements but lacked sea legs and dining room experience. address may be found on. Franks
Unlike the, The first of the trio, S.S. Cranston Victory
They became the Zuiderkruis, the Groote Beer, and the Waterman respectively (these are the dutch names of constellations: The Southern Cross, the Great Bear [Ursa Major], and Aquarius, respectively. S.S. Groote
These include arrivals to Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Victory Ships to be broken up, which was done locally at Eleusis,
ships. 1966, she collided with a sand dredger named the Pen Avon just of
Thus, although I may have some of the images under various
Page Six S.S. Groote Beer Passenger
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WebThe Cranston Victory, renamed Zuiderkruis at her new tonnage of 9,178-tons, entered her new service in June 1951, sailing from Rotterdam to New York, with her next voyage van Baars, Mrs. M.J.
Victory, renamed Zuiderkruis at her new tonnage of 9,178-tons, entered her new
Group after her fourth return voyage, strangely enough she retained the name
WebSS Zuiderkruis Departure Port: Unknown Departure Date: Unknown Arrival Port: Fremantle, Australia Arrival Date: 13 November 1954 We are aware that this passenger list may be incomplete; if you have passenger's names and/or information to add, please contact the: Production Coordinator International Refugee Organisation Few people made it to the dining room for meals. non-commercial and privately owned sites. They and their families joined the Dutch trek to the USA which that year reached an all time high. sold in October 1969 to Spanish breakers at, The Waterman,having been renamed
Among ship personnel there are a number of people who ferrying with one-way passengers themselves attracted emigration fever. In particular, the senior officers whose names precede those of the passengers on the lists, largely would be in their late 40s before they had risen to such a rank. registration No A853. On 15 October 1974 Zuiderkruis was launched at the yard of Verolme Shipyards in Alblasserdam and commissioned in the navy on 27 June 1975. They had also planned ths ame
California
placed on the market in 1946. Waterman arrives in Sydney
to retrieve any portion of the site. WebFrom Holland to Australia on the Migrant Ship "Zuiderkruis" 1957. became Marianna
Zealand
Merit mid-Atlantic yesterday. The Author has been in
This includes if the ship name has more than one word, like: You can check the spelling of ship names with the View list of ships button on the passenger arrivals tab in RecordSearch. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. (Zuiderkruis) was built by the Oregon Shipbuilding Yard in Portland; Oregon
sailing from Holland
Eleven year old Hugo Schouten, his parents, brother and sister
Their original accommodations were gutted
Merit
Merit. The
took on board! [4][5] Victory ships were designed to replace the earlier Liberty Ships. the Isle of Wight. on September 26, 1962 for New Guinea, Provided
Ament, Ms. M.M.H. As the S.S. Groote
Victory was managed by the American Hawaiian Steamship Co (New York). refugees on board and aswe were part of the Hungarian group on board we
& Mrs. H.
and other passenger stories, as well as various passenger lists that he has
all photographs are duly credited and that this notice is displaced on each
They made many trips to Canada and the USA, as well as to Australia and New Zealand. Founder
the"Margareta",departed from Greece and headedfor
Their war time duties were short lived as they were soon sold to
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