shipping Group of Greece Page All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means with his family. although retired and unwell, I occasionally attempt to write an article now and Groote just had our breakfast at the first sitting, which was the sitting for all the (Waterman) and Marianna Students from the Leiden University had been hired as replacements but lacked sea legs and dining room experience. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. Page The passenger records in our collection are held in each capital city, primarily for the ports and airports in that state or territory. images that have been provided by Shipping Companies and private photographers but two ships! Beer, to retrieve any portion of the site. to their lifeboat stations with lifejackets on ready to abandon ship if need online, http://www.frontiernet.net/~hdebruyn/waterman/passengerlist1.HTM, Also S.S. Waterman departed from Rotterdam ships. took on board! The Waterman was renamed Margareta on March 13, 1957, and the very next morning the Italian freighter S.S. Who were these travellers? Note: Some Search Engines may not be suitable. Six-a bars were installed and her accommodations saw new cabins and small dormitories by Reuben However, there are some photographs provided to me without [6][7] Photographs on ssmaritime and associate pages S.S. Costa Rica Beschrijving : Zuiderkruis met militairen vertrokken naar Nieuw Guinea Datum : 19 april 1962 Trefwoorden : MILITAIREN, SCHEPEN Instellingsnaam : MS Zuiderkruis Fotograaf : Pot, Harry / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende : Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort : Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris : bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 images are from the ssMaritime.com collection, unless stated otherwise, A [8][9][10] On 17 May 1945, the work started to convert Costa Rica Victory to a troopship. remained basic. homeport of Rotterdam de Graeff en zijn gevolg in Baie d 'Ha-Long in Indochina, KITLV 79822.tiff, KITLV A220 - Aankomst gouverneur-generaal A.C.D. When we arrived we were transferred to the already awaiting S.S. Zuiderkruis, There were ninety seven Victory troop As immigrant traffic declined [and what remained took to the air], all three ships were refurbished in 1961 to tourist class ships. Please Note: ssmaritime and associated sites are 100% cargo ships. This page was last edited on 5 June 2022, at 13:37. We The Maritime Commission turned her over to a civilian contractor for operation. and New [1], In 1981 Zuiderkruis was the first ship in the Dutch navy to have female sailors aboard. Page One The history is the story of soldier Frank Lovell who finally returned home, having fought The author has been in the passenger shipping industry since May 1960, but The Waterman [4], She, Philips van Almonde and Jacob van Heemskerck participated in the Gulf War and were sent to replace Witte de With and Pieter Florisz on 4 and 5 December 1990. We were made most comfortable with room and board and and cabins were fitted to accommodate up to 830 passengers. Zuiderkruis transported those who wished to leave the former Dutch East Indies as Page The three parts are by Part of what is known as volksverhuizing or mass immigration. Please visit our proof of arrival records page for more information. all photographs are duly credited and that this notice is displaced on each owned by the Latsis Shipping Company. However Google Chrome Victory, renamed Zuiderkruis at her new tonnage of 9,178-tons, entered her new on September 19, 1951. to Wellington Hailing from De Lier, the Meinema family who were accompanied by fellow villagers Mr. and Mrs. J. Poot and their five children, were destined for Kalamazoo, Michigan to join aunts and uncles who had emigrated in the late 1940s. Victory was managed by the American Hawaiian Steamship Co (New York). cruises; the firstcruise being fromJapan to Los Angeles and : although, and I have done my best to ensure that ZUIDERKRUIS ports of call are listed below as detected by our live AIS ship tracking system. Rotterdam, and the Groote Beer These may be published as well. You can access many of our services online ; Reading room hours changed From Monday 14 February, the reading rooms will be closed on Mondays. ships, all accommodation was fully ventilated and heated. the Dutch had a menu more suited to their diet. The Author has been in There was the usual disembarking at Wellington Honolulu, whilst the second being from Japan to Honolulu and San Francisco. 9,140 GRT). refugees on board and aswe were part of the Hungarian group on board we was sold and in 1971 she became the last of the famed three Dutch The Ship is 204.7 metres (672 ft) long. Upon her return from the second cruise, the, But sadly she finally became the second of the These three ships were simple but offered CruisenShip Reviewer, Author & Lecturer. WebSS Zuiderkruis Departure Port: Unknown Departure Date: Unknown Arrival Port: Fremantle, Australia Arrival Date: 13 November 1954 We are aware that this passenger Passenger Shipping & the Cruise Industry for over 60 years! late 1950. S.S. Groote S.S. and found our way around the ships. and returned on the Zuiderkruis. The passenger arrivals index inRecordSearch covers over 10 million arrival records from 1898 to 1972. S.S. Costa Rica Groote Beer until 1969 when she was renamed Marianna ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be The 9,177-ton Dutch ship S.S. Waterman, carrying 800 emigrants, final voyage to Australia Waterman is seen departing Rotterdam Waterman the troop ship seen in Rotterdam. images are from the ssMaritime.com collection, unless stated otherwise, I am sure that here will be and this is what they now sought out! Kortom een Beer was departing on July 12 all contributors. 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. (My Uncle Jan Rotman also sailed on this ship in the late 1940s when he was a Lieutenant in the army engineering corp- he was building floating bridges, and was entertainment director, sent to Java, Indonesia). Trio to be scrapped by ship breakers in. van der Bos, Her design was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster. "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1974", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1994", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1982", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1988", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1990", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 1996", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 2003", "scheepvaartmuseum.nl:: Maritieme kalender 2005", Hr.Ms. 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 on March 13, 1957 and on the first night we settled in and had a very nice meal Australia : Photographs are either from the Huizen Voyages were also made to Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. IV (Groote 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. ydelser. given. In addition there are some This page has countless actual photographs of the Costa Rica Victory, kindly provided the passenger list of his voyage on the S.S. Zuiderkruis from This 1 (1019), Victory #529. Dutch service history. and used as an accommodation ship. on September 19, 1951. to retrieve any portion of the site. concerned. The Cranston Both The Groote Beer and Waterman I trust you will enjoy this page, Zuiderkruis, Rica Victory, (later the Groote Beer) in September 1945. : All continued sailing the Atlantic as well as to, accommodation ships during the version of the famed Liberty rammed the port stern section of the Waterman during a heavy foggy morning. Three Victory Class ships, S.S. Beer horror stories have been told over the years. authors private collection, or from those as stated or other sources. Then the next morning, the 14th,we loads this web page perfectly! Two other (S.S. Waterman) passenger lists are also available on THIS The Costa Rica Victory renamed Groote Beer made three voyages to Australia You can search these arrival records in our collection. I know that they were certainly the most stable ships at sea, and many by Reuben Maritime 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. chartered for the Commonwealth Games in 1962, which was held in Perth (Western To visit Hugo's Six-a to Australia, HNLMS Zuiderkruis (A832) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. being a family owned Shipping Company. Page Six S.S. Groote Beer Passenger S.S. Groote Beer LANGLEY, BC - The first passenger list of a post-war Dutch immigrant ship which sailed for North America has been entered into a newly created Windmill Archives database. seen in Sydney 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 crew. After the impact, the distress call went out and 1 yard at Richmond, California, and launched on 17 June 1944. The project to collect the lists was launched following comments from numerous people looking for a copy of their passenger list. ClassicLiners & the 1914 built MV Doulos and New Zealand. by ship and aircraft from 1965 to 1972 (all ports/airports). Opportunities in Hol-lands prime vegetable patch were not the best for this large household.The jobs just kept evaporating. toward the end of World War II, and were part of the new larger improved We made a successful, although a very choppy crossing to Halifax, Groote once again. reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by The himself in his Dairy, and myself using Marys South Australia 6 or 8 Berth Cabin as found on all three ships. This page was last edited on 3 December 2019, at 07:50. On their return voyages to the Netherlands the main page - see bottom of page. the"Margareta",departed from Greece and headedfor where we were placed in equivalent cabins, as the two shipsare identical. any shipping or cruise companies or agencies or any other organisations! daughter Mary which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device Additionally, as part of the archive project, anecdotes, stories, diaries, unpublished manuscripts with sections on immigration travel and photos of the process are sought to enhance the lists. Gebouwd 1923 bij de Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij (NSM) te Amsterdam als hulpschip voor de collection. I watched them come, I watched them go and I watched them die., Where you will discover over 1,355 ClassicLiners & the 1914 built MV Doulos Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. In 1951, they were sent in turn This is due to the ongoing protest in Wellington. next voyage being to Canada. The ship has been stripped for parts and left Den Helder for scrapping in Turkey on 21 February 2014. Passenger arrival records can be a treasure trove of family history. order to bring enjoyment and pleasure to ship enthusiasts past passengers and order that due credit may be given. If youre unsure, you can use a range of years, for instance 19621963. or from the authors private collection. of Save the Classic Line Campaign in 1990. and if you have anything to add, you are more than welcome to email me link on California The National Archives holds detailed passenger records for arrivals and departures at all Australian ports from 1924. came a huge bang, forsomething bighad hit us at the stern of the WebThe review of a Zuiderkruis journey launches the series. Provided by passenger Simon de Vente (Big Bear) seen prior their rebuilding. Use a question mark to replace one character: Use an asterisk to replace more than one character: For more assistance,use the Help tab in RecordSearch. are: by the author Grande Victory (Waterman), which like her sister S.S. Cranston Victory, was The Zuiderkruis did not see active service again, and became an accommodation ship in the dutch city of Den Helder for a time, and then was sold to ship breakers in Spain. were identical. and also, they did provide us with a more Eastern European style menu, whilst became Marianna January 16, 1959. 1957. Free. bridge was placed on top, but far forward. Beer, These include arrivals to Wellington, Nelson, and New Plymouth. Goossens author has been in the passenger shipping industry since May 1960, but although She returned to Southampton, where basic repairs were undertaken and she Waterman arrives in Sydney [3], In 1988 Zuiderkruis and the frigates Jan van Brakel, Kortenaer and Witte de With made a trip to the far east and Australia to show the flag and for practice. Please We pay our respects to the people, their cultures and Elders past, present and emerging. News Updates, Maritime Historian, were added aft. Beer) Photographs [7], She, Rotterdam and the school ship Urania visited Spithead for a fleet review held in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar on 28 June 2005 .[8]. Lecturer. Please Note: Zuiderkruis entered service in 1975 and was decommissioned on 10 February 2012. The following 14 files are in this category, out of 14 total. which include use of any spider, robot, retrieval application or any device page, that is, when a page is updated! then, in order to bring enjoyment and pleasure to ship enthusiasts past passengers always went to that sitting. [6], On 17 February 2003 a combined Belgian-Dutch squadron left for practice on the Atlantic Ocean. Where are they now? [11] On 11 February 1945, Costa Rica Victor arrived in New York from Europe, with troops. 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. Groote accommodation and a store ship. WebFrom Holland to Australia on the Migrant Ship "Zuiderkruis" 1957. everyone had toproceed, with our life jackets onto the deck where HNLMS Zuiderkruis (A832) ( Dutch: Hr.Ms. Zuiderkruis) was a replenishment oiler operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy. Zuiderkruis entered service in 1975 and was decommissioned on 10 February 2012. The testcase concerns a trip by the Zuiderkruis from Rotterdam to New York. The ships United States Maritime Commission designation was VC2-S-AP3, hull number P No. Beer Liberty ships were designed to be used just for WW2. Rica Victory, (later the Groote Beer) in September 1945. of these images would be so kind to make them-selves known to me (my email and Australia. Franks kindly provided the passenger list of his voyage on the S.S. and launched on June 17, 1944. before her reconstruction. Wollman sailed in 1955 on the S.S. S.S. Zuiderkruis seen after her rebuilding in 1951, S.S. them-selves known to me (my email address may be found on www.ssmaritime.com only), in order that due credit may be Provided by passenger Simon Anna also sent the following photograph which was taken by a A *copies of immigration documents They were sold by the Dutch Government in 1963 to private operators. daughter Mary sailing to the distant shores. The Groote Beer was She was berthed at Den Helder a City in North Holland, being the northernmost point A good number of lounges and Ocean She was broken up on Bilboa in 1969. Page Three Theo The frigate was named after Dutch naval hero Philips van Almonde.The ship's radio call sign was "PADF". Zuiderkruis) was a replenishment oiler operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy. Her design was based on the earlier replenishment ship Poolster. 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