New York: ‘Torpedo leave’
9 September 1942. In New York someone had let it be known that a ship with castaways had arrived and that was the reason why a large mobile canteen had arrived on the docks with a foursome of very friendly...
The Last Voyage: week by week
Abbekerk’s aftermath : the sailors
Adriaan Willlem Kik (Engineer) After his ‘torpedo’ leave he sailed a few voyages on the Shell tanker Macuba en the rest of the war on board the SS Maaskerk (VNS). The ‘lucky’ Maaskerk sailed up and down from England to...
Abbekerk’s aftermath: the ships
MS Abbekerk Abbekerk was not even three years old when she sunk. She sank not only distance-wise in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She also sank at the crossing of two tectonic fracture zones: the Charlie-Gibb fracture (east-west) and...
Abbekerk’s aftermath: The Battle of the Atlantic
The fall and winter of 1942 were the low point of the battle measured by the number of merchant ships sunk. But it also marked a change, although not recognized at the time. During the spring of 1943 the Allied...
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