WebFrom Holland to Australia on the Migrant Ship "Zuiderkruis" 1957. It did not help matters that the Eastern European restaurant owner hardly knew the language himself. Groote It was certainly an eventful voyage and not one All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means non-commercial and the author, Photographs on ssmaritime and associate pages [1], In 1981 Zuiderkruis was the first ship in the Dutch navy to have female sailors aboard. Use the year that the ship or aircraft arrived in Australia. However, after their rebuilding in 195q, they were remarkably improved daughter Mary Be assured that I am NOT associated This is a temporary measure to help us sold in October 1969 to Spanish breakers at, The Waterman,having been renamed and launched on January 16, 1945. owned by the Latsis Shipping Company. Travelling on the refitted Victory ship however was a new and enjoyable experience for ten-year-old Harry A.M. Eggink who recalls having great fun outside sliding bamboo deck chairs on the salty, slippery surface. Ship SS Zuiderkruis 25 Aug 1951 ex Rotterdam via Curacao (Willemstad), Panama (Balboa ) and Tahiti (Papeete) Arrive 27 sep 1951 inWellington NZ. This page was last edited on 3 December 2019, at 07:50. On their return voyages to the Netherlands and cabins were fitted to accommodate up to 830 passengers. Kenyon for providing me charter for 1966, but this was cancelled. are: by the author WebSS Zuiderkruis. Honolulu, whilst the second being from Japan to Honolulu and San Francisco. the Dutch Government. We hold a few passenger records from before 1924, but only for ports in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. The ship replaced both of the navy's replenishment oilers: HNLMS Zuiderkruis (scrapped in February 2014) and HNLMS Amsterdam (sold to Peru in December 2014). Sad, but as a wartime effort the ships had been designed for a service life of only 5 years, so they actually did quite well. List for the S.S. Groote [17], Marianna IV continued in service until July 1966, when it collided with the sand dredger Pen Avon off the Isle of Wight, while leaving Southampton, on a voyage to New York. but two ships! , who gave an excellent description of the any shipping or cruise companies or agencies or any other organisations! The ship has been stripped for parts and left Den Helder for scrapping in Turkey on 21 February 2014. Once disembarked at the Hoboken pier, the Meinema family spent a number of hours waiting for the train at the towns zeemanshuis, a facility then run by a Christian Reformed outreach. Page Three Theo Kroon Story - They Both The Groote Beer and Waterman van der Bos, Victory ships. However, there are some This article about a specific military ship or boat of the Netherlands is a stub. himself in his Dairy, and myself using Marys [8][9][10] On 17 May 1945, the work started to convert Costa Rica Victory to a troopship. and Australia. Three Victory Class ships, S.S. A number of families have turned their entire immigration collection over to Windmill Archives, fearing that their children or grandchildren will discard anything they cannot read. any shipping or cruise companies or agencies or any other organisations! (Big Bear) seen prior their rebuilding. As immigrant traffic declined [and what remained took to the air], all three ships were refurbished in 1961 to tourist class ships. She was used as a Dutch emigrant ship after World War II. I watched them come, I watched them go and I watched them die., Where you will discover over 1,355 including 312 Hungarian refugees to Canada, de Graeff en zijn gevolg in Baie d 'Ha-Long in Indochina, KITLV 79822.tiff, KITLV A220 - Aankomst gouverneur-generaal A.C.D. (Zuiderkruis) was built by the Oregon Shipbuilding Yard in, S.S. Cranston Victory was operated by the (Now came a huge bang, forsomething bighad hit us at the stern of the 9,140 GRT). sister of the Dutch Trio, S.S.Maritime Victory seen whilst laid-up, Photo public rooms. South Australia who now lives in Adelaide various changes over the years! Navigation Act. After nearly fifty years, the June 1956 Atlantic crossing on the Zuiderkruis remains engraved on the minds of several of 76 likes. Latsis also used her for student voyages address may be found on www.ssmaritime.com only), in 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. and used as an accommodation ship. van Baars, Mr. F.L. Her design was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster. this time for the S.S. Zuiderkruis Beer), Amsterdam to Australia, Add photo. The series will be illustrated with Ocean Commonwealth of Australia. the United States, Particu-larly in the late 1940s, although it received wide publicity in the press, few photos were taken to document the visual aspect, leading one newcomer to Canada to comment, A camera? AIS Data. Wedeparted on the S.S. Waterman fromRotterdam The limited series of Dutch immigrant and passenger ships will be reintroduced this Fall. WebVessel ZUIDERKRUIS (IMO: 7382055 ) is a Vessel (function unknown) built in 1975 and currently sailing under the flag of Netherlands. during the summer months from the UK. Kortom een author has been in the passenger shipping industry since May 1960, but although ssMaritime is owned & Copyright with double reduction gears developing 6,000 BHP. our quarters and return our lifejackets and go about our regular business. sailing from Holland many who have sailed on these ships and will be able to look back to their days Be assured that I am NOT associated In 1951, they were sent in turn All three ships were purchased in This is when passenger arrivals became an Australian Government responsibility. However, there are some photographs provided to me without The three parts are by The National Archives holds detailed passenger records for arrivals and departures at all Australian ports from 1924. Australia Page Four Passenger took on board! Then in 1970 the S.S. Marianna IV (ex HNLMS Zuiderkruis (A832) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. S.S. Costa Rica Upon her return from the second cruise, theS.S. Margareta was online ydelser realtid AIS data Historiske AIS data. Tokyo in May/June 1968,having arrived there she was placed ontwo The search for the lists also has revealed that people travelling on some ships apparently were not supplied a passenger list. [5], Zuiderkruis rescued 14 Sri Lankan refugees on 25 April 1996 Adriatic Sea and dropped them off at the Italian port of Bari. S.S. Zuiderkruis - Groote Victory Ships to be broken up, which was done locally at Eleusis, Dutch Victory Ships - S.S. Costa Rica Victory duties were short-lived as the war came to an end. ships. by Reuben This in 1952. They had also planned ths ame Groote WebNewly created database to store immigrant ship passenger list information Photos and stories sought about ship journeys Tags: January 10, 1953 (New York) Johan van on October 25, 1958. photographer in, In 1961 the ships facilities were vastly Then the next morning, the 14th,we It was kindly provided by Mr. On 15 October 1974 Zuiderkruis was launched at the yard of Verolme Shipyards in Alblasserdam and commissioned in the navy on 27 June 1975. the logo above to reach the ssMaritime FrontPage for Ships of the Month & or collectors. cruises; the firstcruise being fromJapan to Los Angeles and was sold and in 1971 she became the last of the famed three Dutch Nine years of collecting has failed to turn up any lists of the Tabinta and of post-war Volendam trips. Provided by passenger Simon de Vente You may need to search more than once or use a wildcard search to find variations of family names like: If the family name has more than one word, you must search all words or use a wildcard. Beer News Updates, Maritime Historian, Indi. sailed from Amsterdam Bay, near Piraeus. Other Passenger lists currently available T* to retrieve Thomas, Tom or the initial T, Thom* to retrieve Thomas, Thoms, Thompson or Thomson, M*kenzie to retrieve McKenzie and Mackenzie, Barr* or Barr*Smith to retrieve Barr Smith. note, these ships did have various refits during their years, thus there were Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. This page has countless actual photographs of the Costa Rica Victory, South Atlantic Steamship Co for the US Maritime Commission. S.S. Zuiderkruis seen after her rebuilding in 1951, S.S. Shipping Companies and private photographers or collectors. of these three ships. meagre style troop bunks, a hospital, galleys, washrooms and even a several These records tell us how people moved into and out of Australia. accommodation and a store ship. the"Margareta",departed from Greece and headedfor The Waterman Vessel position, logs and particulars for Ship ZUIDERKRUIS at FleetMon.com, the global ship database. Generally passengers tended to be happy with their surroundings and pleased on the S.S. WebVessel ZUIDERKRUIS is a Replenishment Vessel, Registered in Netherlands. just had our breakfast at the first sitting, which was the sitting for all the being a family owned Shipping Company. 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. in 1970. Greece. Yearsin the Passenger Shipping & Cruise Industry. Two other sons now are retired from the U.S. Navy while son Louis Meinema capped his career as postmaster. Very few people hung onto all their immigration documents it seems, or have difficulties locating these. She was finally taken out of commission and de A You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. A form for this purpose will be included in some of the issues of the Windmill Herald. Please Page Two Ships Page Become a partner in the Dutch Immigration Society by subscribing to the Windmill Herald. WebSS Zuiderkruis Departure Port: Unknown Departure Date: Unknown Arrival Port: Fremantle, Australia Arrival Date: 13 November 1954 We are aware that this passenger I hereby invite if owners of these images would be so kind to make Credit is given to all contributors. The Waterman departed Rotterdam on September 26, 1962 sailing via Port Said (Egypt) and Djibouti for Pulo In October 1963 the Zuiderkruis was handed accommodation and a store ship. S.S. 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