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class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Dutch cargo steamship sunk by an Allied mine in the Irish sea in 1941</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <table class="infobox" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.5em;"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">History</th></tr> <tr><th height="30" colspan="2" style="background-color:#B0C4DE;text-align:left;padding-left:2px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;"><span class="flagicon"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/42px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/63px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, 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title="Fijenoord">Fijenoord</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Yard number</td><td>290</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Launched</td><td>25 January 1922</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Completed</td><td>15 June 1922</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Maiden voyage</td><td>31 January 1923</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Identification</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Code_letters" title="Code letters">code letters</a> NGTC (until 1933)</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><span class="flagicon" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ICS_November.svg" 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/ICS_Zulu.svg/23px-ICS_Zulu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/ICS_Zulu.svg/30px-ICS_Zulu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span><span class="flagicon" style="padding-right:0.3em;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ICS_Papa.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/ICS_Papa.svg/15px-ICS_Papa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/ICS_Papa.svg/23px-ICS_Papa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/ICS_Papa.svg/30px-ICS_Papa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Fate</td><td><a href="/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">mined</a>, 26 January 1941</td></tr> <tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">General characteristics</th></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Class and type</td><td>NASM B-class <a href="/wiki/Cargo_ship" title="Cargo ship">cargo ship</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Tonnage</td><td>6,869 <a href="/wiki/Gross_register_tonnage" title="Gross register tonnage">GRT</a>, 4,241 <a href="/wiki/Net_register_tonnage" title="Net register tonnage">NRT</a>, 9,852 <a href="/wiki/Deadweight_tonnage" title="Deadweight tonnage">DWT</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Length</td><td>400.6 ft (122.1 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Beam</td><td>54.3 ft (16.6 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Draught</td><td>30 ft 2 in (9.19 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Depth</td><td>36.6 ft (11.2 m)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Decks</td><td>2 + shelter deck</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Installed power</td><td>648 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Nominal_horsepower" title="Horsepower">NHP</a>, 3,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">SHP</a></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Propulsion</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">2 × <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Gear_train" title="Gear train">double-reduction gearing</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1 × <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screw</a></li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Speed</td><td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">12<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> knots (23 km/h)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Capacity</td><td><ul style="list-style:none; margin:0;"> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><b>cargo:</b></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">527,000 cu ft (14,900 m<sup>3</sup>) grain;</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">478,000 cu ft (13,500 m<sup>3</sup>) bale</li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;"><b>passengers:</b></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">as built: 3 × <a href="/wiki/First_class_travel" title="First class travel">1st class</a></li> <li style="padding-left: .4em; text-indent: -.4em;">1934: 7</li> </ul></td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Crew</td><td>42</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Sensors and <br /> processing systems</td><td>wireless <a href="/wiki/Direction_finding" title="Direction finding">direction finding</a> (by 1937)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Armament</td><td><a href="/wiki/Defensively_equipped_merchant_ship" title="Defensively equipped merchant ship">DEMS</a> (by 1941)</td></tr> <tr style="vertical-align:top;"><td style="font-weight: bold">Notes</td><td>one of a class of eight <a href="/wiki/Sister_ship" title="Sister ship">sister ships</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p><b>SS <i>Beemsterdijk</i></b> was a <a href="/wiki/Holland_America_Line" title="Holland America Line">Holland America Line</a> (NASM) <a href="/wiki/Cargo_ship" title="Cargo ship">cargo</a> <a href="/wiki/Steamship" title="Steamship">steamship</a>. She was one of NASM's B-class ships: the company's first cargo ships to be powered by <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a>. She was built in <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a> in 1922. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Naval_mine" title="Naval mine">mine</a> sank the ship in the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> in 1941, with the loss of 39 of her 42 crew. Her survivors drifted in a <a href="/wiki/Lifeboat_(shipboard)#Liferaft_versus_lifeboat" title="Lifeboat (shipboard)">life raft</a> for four days, until an <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution" title="Royal National Lifeboat Institution">RNLI</a> lifeboat rescued them off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. </p><p>Some sources anglicise the ship's name to <i>Beemsterdyk</i>. However, <a href="/wiki/Lloyd%27s_Register" title="Lloyd's Register">Lloyd's Register</a> always recorded her as <i>Beemsterdijk</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="B-class_turbine_steamships">B-class turbine steamships</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: B-class turbine steamships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Until 1920, every NASM cargo ship was propelled by a reciprocating steam engine; in most cases <a href="/wiki/Marine_steam_engine#Triple_or_multiple_expansion" title="Marine steam engine">triple-expansion</a>. However, in April of that year <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Giessen_(scheepswerf)" class="extiw" title="nl:Van der Giessen (scheepswerf)">C. van der Giessen & Zonen's</a> shipyard in <a href="/wiki/Krimpen_aan_den_IJssel" title="Krimpen aan den IJssel">Krimpen aan den IJssel</a> <a href="/wiki/Keel_laying" title="Keel laying">laid down</a> the first of a class of new ships of about 6,850 <a href="/wiki/Gross_register_tonnage" title="Gross register tonnage">GRT</a> for NASM. Each member of the class was to be driven by two <a href="/wiki/John_Brown_%26_Company" title="John Brown & Company">Brown</a>-Curtis <a href="/wiki/Steam_turbine" title="Steam turbine">steam turbines</a>, driving a single <a href="/wiki/Propeller" title="Propeller">screw</a> via <a href="/wiki/Gear_train" title="Gear train">double-reduction gearing</a>. </p><p>Van der Giessen launched the first ship in October 1920 as <i>Burgerdijk</i>, completed her in June 1921,<sup id="cite_ref-Burgerdyk_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burgerdyk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and went on to build three more members of the class.<sup id="cite_ref-Blijdendyk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blijdendyk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Blommersdyk_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blommersdyk-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bilderdyk_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bilderdyk-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Industrieële Maatschappij 'De Noord' in <a href="/wiki/Alblasserdam" title="Alblasserdam">Alblasserdam</a> built two,<sup id="cite_ref-Binnendyk_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Binnendyk-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the final member of the class, <i>Boschdijk</i>, which was completed in October 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-Boschdyk_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boschdyk-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boele" class="extiw" title="nl:Boele">Boele's Scheepswerven & Machinefabriek</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bolnes" title="Bolnes">Bolnes</a> in South Holland built one,<sup id="cite_ref-Breedyk_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Breedyk-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Fijenoord" title="Fijenoord">Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a> built one.<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Building_Beemsterdijk">Building <i>Beemsterdijk</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Building Beemsterdijk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord built <i>Beemsterdijk</i> as yard number 290. She was the sixth member of the class to be completed. She was yard number 290. She was launched on 29 January 1922 and completed on 15 June.<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her lengths were 416.3 ft (126.9 m) <a href="/wiki/Length_overall" title="Length overall">overall</a> and 400.6 ft (122.1 m) registered. Her beam was 54.3 ft (16.6 m) and her depth was 36.6 ft (11.2 m). Her <a href="/wiki/Tonnage" title="Tonnage">tonnages</a> were 6,869 <a href="/wiki/Gross_register_tonnage" title="Gross register tonnage">GRT</a>, 4,241 <a href="/wiki/Net_register_tonnage" title="Net register tonnage">NRT</a> and 9,852 <a href="/wiki/Deadweight_tonnage" title="Deadweight tonnage">DWT</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She had six <a href="/wiki/Hold_(compartment)" title="Hold (compartment)">holds</a>, divided by watertight <a href="/wiki/Bulkhead_(partition)" title="Bulkhead (partition)">bulkheads</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They gave her a capacity for 527,000 cubic feet (14,900 m<sup>3</sup>) of grain, or 478,000 cubic feet (13,500 m<sup>3</sup>) of baled cargo. She also had three berths for <a href="/wiki/First_class_travel" title="First class travel">first class</a> passengers.<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The combined power output of <i>Beemsterdijk</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s turbines was rated at 648 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Nominal_horsepower" title="Horsepower">NHP</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1923BEE–BEL_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1923BEE–BEL-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 3,000 <a href="/wiki/Horsepower#Shaft_horsepower" title="Horsepower">SHP</a>. They gave her a speed of <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1154941027"><span class="frac">12<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> knots (23 km/h).<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Peacetime_career">Peacetime career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Peacetime career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>NASM <a href="/wiki/Ship_registration" title="Ship registration">registered</a> <i>Beemsterdijk</i> at <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Rotterdam" title="Port of Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>. Her <a href="/wiki/Code_letters" title="Code letters">code letters</a> were NGTC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1923BEE–BEL_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1923BEE–BEL-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 31 January 1923 she left Rotteredam on her maiden voyage, which was to NASM's terminal in <a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken, New Jersey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1934 the <a href="/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy" title="Wireless telegraphy">wireless telegraph</a> <a href="/wiki/Maritime_call_sign" title="Maritime call sign">call sign</a> PCZB had supreseded <i>Beemsterdijk</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s code letters.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1934BEA–BEL_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1934BEA–BEL-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 1934, her accommodation was increased to carry seven passengers.<sup id="cite_ref-SMHD_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SMHD-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 1937 she was equipped with wireless <a href="/wiki/Direction_finding" title="Direction finding">direction finding</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1937BEA–BEI_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTE''Lloyd's_Register''_1937BEA–BEI-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg/220px-Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg/330px-Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg/440px-Veendam_1923_colour_postcard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1089" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_crossing" title="Transatlantic crossing">transatlantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Ocean_liner" title="Ocean liner">liner</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Veendam_(1922)" title="SS Veendam (1922)"><i>Veendam</i></a></figcaption></figure> <p>On 3 April 1936, three teenage boys from <a href="/wiki/Kips_Bay,_Manhattan" title="Kips Bay, Manhattan">Kips Bay, Manhattan</a>, stowed away on the NASM <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_crossing" title="Transatlantic crossing">transatlantic</a> <a href="/wiki/Ocean_liner" title="Ocean liner">liner</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Veendam_(1922)" title="SS Veendam (1922)"><i>Veendam</i></a>, in the mistaken belief that she was going to <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>. They were discovered the next day, and NASM at first said that the boys would be landed at <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, where the US Consul would arrange their return.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Veendam</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s Master made them do three hours' work a day until 6 April, when <i>Veendam</i> met <i>Beemsterdijk</i> in mid-Atlantic.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-1936-0411_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1936-0411-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Beemsterdijk</i> was westbound to Hoboken, so the three stowaways were transferred by motor launch from <i>Veendam</i> to the cargo ship.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Beemsterdijk</i> landed the boys back at Hoboken on 10 April.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-1936-0411_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-1936-0411-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wartime_career">Wartime career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Wartime career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Beemsterdijk</i> was in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" title="Gulf of Mexico">Gulf of Mexico</a> when <a href="/wiki/German_invasion_of_the_Netherlands" title="German invasion of the Netherlands">Germany invaded the Netherlands</a>. She left <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Galveston" title="Port of Galveston">Galveston</a> on 4 May 1940, and was in <a href="/wiki/Port_of_New_Orleans" title="Port of New Orleans">New Orleans</a> from 4 to 11 May. Her movements for the next few weeks are not clear, but on 27 June she left New Orleans carrying general cargo and sailed via Bermuda, where she joined Convoy BKX 56. This converged with <a href="/wiki/HX_convoys" title="HX convoys">Convoy HX</a> 56 from <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Halifax" title="Port of Halifax">Kalifax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>, by which she reached <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Liverpool" title="Port of Liverpool">Liverpool</a> on 22 or 23 July.<sup id="cite_ref-Hague_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hague-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 22 August 1940 <i>Beemsterdijk</i> left Liverpool with Convoy OB 202, which dispersed at sea. She continued unescorted to <a href="/wiki/Port_of_New_York_and_New_Jersey" title="Port of New York and New Jersey">New York</a>, where she was in port from 5 to 13 September, and loaded a cargo of steel. She sailed unescorted to Halifax, where she joined Convoy HX 74, by which she reached Liverpool on 2 October.<sup id="cite_ref-Hague_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hague-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 November 1940 <i>Beemsterdijk</i> left Liverpool with Convoy OB 241, which dispersed at sea. She continued unescorted to <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Baltimore" title="Port of Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, where she was in port from 26 November to 5 December. She sailed unescorted to Halifax, where she joined Convoy HX 95. Before the convoy reached Liverpool, <i>Beemsterdijk</i> detached for the <a href="/wiki/Firth_of_Clyde" title="Firth of Clyde">Firth of Clyde</a>, where she arrived on 26 December.<sup id="cite_ref-Hague_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hague-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Loss">Loss</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Loss"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 21 January 1941 <i>Beemsterdijk</i> left <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sailing_ballast" class="mw-redirect" title="Sailing ballast">ballast</a><sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to <a href="/wiki/Bunkering" title="Bunkering">bunker</a> at <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Docks" title="Cardiff Docks">Cardiff</a>. On 24 January she called at <a href="/wiki/Greenock" title="Greenock">Greenock</a> for her compass to be adjusted.<sup id="cite_ref-Hague_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hague-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the ship had new <a href="/wiki/Degaussing" title="Degaussing">degaussing</a> equipment, which may have interfered with her compass.<sup id="cite_ref-Doherty_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Doherty-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire,_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png/170px-Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="270" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png/255px-Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png/340px-Engraving_of_Smalls_Lighthouse_near_Pembrokeshire%2C_Wales_being_struck_by_a_wave_during_a_storm.png 2x" data-file-width="1648" data-file-height="2620" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engraving</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Smalls_Lighthouse" title="Smalls Lighthouse">Smalls Lighthouse</a> in a storm</figcaption></figure> <p>On the morning of 26 January she was in <a href="/wiki/St_George%27s_Channel" title="St George's Channel">St George's Channel</a> off the west coast of <a href="/wiki/Pembrokeshire" title="Pembrokeshire">Pembrokeshire</a>, at a position that her navigators believed to be about 12 nautical miles (22 km) off the <a href="/wiki/Smalls_Lighthouse" title="Smalls Lighthouse">Smalls Lighthouse</a>, when she struck an Allied mine that blew a hole in her hull in way of holds 5 and 6 aft. At 11:20 hrs the wireless telegraph (radio) officer transmitted the first <a href="/wiki/SOS" title="SOS">SOS</a> signal. The <a href="/wiki/Fourth_engineer" title="Fourth engineer">Fourth Engineer</a> stopped her engines, the crew launched her lifeboats, and the entire <a href="/wiki/Ship%27s_company" title="Ship's company">ship's company</a> abandoned ship in ten minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Beemsterdijk</i> settled in the water, but maintained an even keel and did not sink. About an hour later her <a href="/wiki/Master_mariner" title="Master mariner">Master</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sea_captain" title="Sea captain">Captain</a> Dirk Wijers, reboarded her with the <a href="/wiki/Chief_engineer" title="Chief engineer">Chief Engineer</a> and the Fourth Engineer. The water level inside the ship was slowly rising. The rest of the crew reboarded the ship to try to save her, and dropped one of her anchors to keep her position. All remained on deck, and all except Captain Wijers kept their <a href="/wiki/Personal_flotation_device" title="Personal flotation device">lifejackets</a> on.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The radio operator, Quirinus Kroeze, transmitted four SOS signals in less than two and a half hours.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ml_117_FL8598.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ml_117_FL8598.jpg/220px-Ml_117_FL8598.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ml_117_FL8598.jpg/330px-Ml_117_FL8598.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Ml_117_FL8598.jpg/440px-Ml_117_FL8598.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="577" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/Fairmile_B_motor_launch" title="Fairmile B motor launch">Fairmile B motor launch</a>, similar to <i>ML 168</i></figcaption></figure> <p>At 11:30 hrs on 26 January, the RNLI <a href="/wiki/St_Davids_Lifeboat_Station" title="St Davids Lifeboat Station">St Davids Lifeboat Station</a> launched its lifeboat <i>Swn-y-Mor</i>. At 15:15 hrs she reached the position <i>Beemsterdijk</i> had given, and was soon joined by three other vessels, and made contact with one of them, the Royal Navy <a href="/wiki/Fairmile_B_motor_launch" title="Fairmile B motor launch">Fairmile B motor launch</a> <i>ML 168</i>. They failed to find <i>Beemsterdijk</i>, and at 15:55 hrs <i>Swn-y-Mor</i> was recalled to St David's.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> base at <a href="/wiki/Milford_Haven" title="Milford Haven">Milford Haven</a> sent two Dutch tugs: <i>Goliath</i> at 11:50 hrs, and <a href="/wiki/Smit_International" title="Smit International">L Smit & Co's</a> <i>Seine</i> shortly after. At 15:15 hrs they reached the position <i>Beemsterdijk</i> had given, but visibility was poor, and they did not find her. A British <a href="/wiki/Naval_trawler" title="Naval trawler">naval trawler</a> gave the tugs directions to <i>Beemsterdijk</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s position, but they still did not find her. The tugs, the Smalls Lighthouse, and the radio station at <a href="/wiki/Land%27s_End" title="Land's End">Land's End</a> maintained radio contact. At 21:30 hrs <i>Beemsterdijk</i> radioed that she would fire a <a href="/wiki/Flare#Maritime_distress_signal" title="Flare">flare rocket</a>. The tugs failed to see it, so the ship fired a second flare. The tugs failed to see the second flare, too. On the morning of 27 January the wind increased to a gale. At 09:00 hrs <i>Seine</i> broke off the search, and at 12:30 hrs <i>Goliath</i> did likewise and returned to Milford Haven.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Admiralty_tug#First_World_War_tugs" title="Admiralty tug">Saint-class tug</a> <i>Caroline Moller</i> (formerly HMS <i>St Mabyn</i>) and three launches were sent from <a href="/wiki/Falmouth,_Cornwall" title="Falmouth, Cornwall">Falmouth, Cornwall</a>. Then all encountered poor visibility and also failed to find <i>Beemsterdijk</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the wind increased on the morning of 27 January, the bulkhead between <i>Beemsterdijk</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s holds 5 and 6 collapsed under the weight of water at about 09:30 hrs. Captain Wijers immediately ordered the crew back into the lifeboats. Before the men reached the boats, the ship rapidly listed to starboard and sank stern first, sinking the lifeboats with her. The crew was thrown into the water.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rescue">Rescue</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Rescue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Fourth Engineer, <a href="/wiki/Chief_steward" title="Chief steward">steward</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boatswain" title="Boatswain">boatswain</a>'s boy and a <a href="/wiki/Galley_(kitchen)" title="Galley (kitchen)">galley</a> boy found and boarded a life raft that had floated free from the ship. The raft had no food, drinking water, oars, or emergency signalling equipment. At times it drifted close to being dashed on rocks, so the men removed two boards from the deck, which they used to paddle to safety. On 28 January all four men were washed overboard, but managed to reboard the raft. On 29 January the galley boy, Cornelis Lenaerst, was washed overboard again, and lost.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The raft had drifted west, and was now off the south coast of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>. On 30 January, <a href="/wiki/Irish_Coast_Guard" title="Irish Coast Guard">Irish Coast Guards</a> at Look Out Post 17 on Brownstown Head in <a href="/wiki/County_Waterford" title="County Waterford">County Waterford</a> sighted the raft and alerted the RNLI station at <a href="/wiki/Dunmore_East" title="Dunmore East">Dunmore East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Doherty_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Doherty-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lifeboat <i>Annie Blanche Smith</i> was launched at 10:20 hrs. 15 minutes later it reached the raft, which by then was in Coolum Cove, within 300 yards (270 m) of rocks. The three survivors were weakened by cold, wet, hunger, and lack of water for four days. The bow-man of the lifeboat jumped onto the raft, at great personal risk, to help them to board the lifeboat.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Doherty_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Doherty-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At 13:30 hrs <i>Annie Blanche Smith</i> arrived back at Dunmore East. A local hotel accommodated the three men, and a doctor from <a href="/wiki/Waterford" title="Waterford">Waterford</a> and members of the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Red_Cross_Society" title="Irish Red Cross Society">Irish Red Cross Society</a> looked after them. About 19 February were moved to Waterford. <a href="/wiki/The_Mission_to_Seafarers" title="The Mission to Seafarers">The Missions to Seamen</a> accommodated Fourth Engineer Willem van't Hoff and boatswain's boy Stanley Gillard. Steward Petrus Schrage was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Waterford_Union_Workhouse" title="Waterford Union Workhouse">Waterford Infirmary</a> for treatment to his foot.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg/220px-Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg/330px-Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg/440px-Rotterdam_monument_NASM-HAL_katendrecht.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2481" data-file-height="1785" /></a><figcaption>NASM's Second World War <a href="/wiki/War_memorial" title="War memorial">memorial</a> in <a href="/wiki/Katendrecht" title="Katendrecht">Katendrecht</a>, Rotterdam</figcaption></figure> <p>Of the 39 men lost, four bodies washed ashore in Pembrokeshire. <a href="/wiki/Third_mate" title="Third mate">Third Officer</a> Willem Reijers, assistant engineer Paulus Tanis, and <a href="/wiki/Oiler_(occupation)" title="Oiler (occupation)">oiler</a> Jan Witte were later reburied in the Dutch <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_War_Graves_Commission" title="Commonwealth War Graves Commission">war graves</a> section of <a href="/wiki/Mill_Hill" title="Mill Hill">Mill Hill</a> Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/North_London" title="North London">North London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Purser" title="Purser">Purser</a> Willem van der Hoeven remains buried at <a href="/wiki/St_Davids" title="St Davids">St Davids</a> in Pembrokeshire.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuijk_9-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuijk-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Beemsterdijk&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Merchant Fleets series. Vol. 28. Uckfield: Travel Creatours Ltd Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0946378258" title="Special:BookSources/0946378258"><bdi>0946378258</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Holland+America+Line&rft.place=Uckfield&rft.series=Merchant+Fleets+series&rft.pub=Travel+Creatours+Ltd+Publications&rft.date=1995&rft.isbn=0946378258&rft.aulast=Haws&rft.aufirst=Duncan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Beemsterdijk" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd's_Register_1923" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/HECROS1924ST/page/n137/mode/1up"><i>Lloyd's Register of Shipping</i></a>. Vol. II.–Steamers and Motor Vessels. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1923 – via <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lloyd%27s+Register+of+Shipping&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Lloyd%27s+Register+of+Shipping&rft.date=1923&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2FHECROS1924ST%2Fpage%2Fn137%2Fmode%2F1up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Beemsterdijk" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd's_Register_1934" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/34/34b0102.pdf"><i>Lloyd's Register of Shipping</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Vol. II.–Steamers and Motorships of 300 Tons Gross and Over. London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1934 – via <a href="/wiki/Southampton_City_Council" title="Southampton City Council">Southampton City Council</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lloyd%27s+Register+of+Shipping&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Lloyd%27s+Register+of+Shipping&rft.date=1934&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fplimsoll.southampton.gov.uk%2Fshipdata%2Fpdfs%2F34%2F34b0102.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASS+Beemsterdijk" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLloyd's_Register_1937" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk/shipdata/pdfs/37/37b0101.pdf"><i>Lloyd's Register of Shipping</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Vol. II.–Steamers and Motorships of 300 Tons Gross and Over. 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href="/wiki/MS_Nieuw_Statendam" title="MS Nieuw Statendam"><i>Nieuw Statendam</i></a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Rotterdam_(2020)" title="MS Rotterdam (2020)"><i>Rotterdam</i></a> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vista-class_cruise_ship_(2002)" title="Vista-class cruise ship (2002)">Signature class</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MS_Eurodam" title="MS Eurodam"><i>Eurodam</i></a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Nieuw_Amsterdam_(2009)" title="MS Nieuw Amsterdam (2009)"><i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i></a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Vista-class_cruise_ship_(2002)" title="Vista-class cruise ship (2002)">Vista class</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam" title="MS Zuiderdam"><i>Zuiderdam</i></a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Oosterdam" title="MS Oosterdam"><i>Oosterdam</i></a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Westerdam" title="MS Westerdam"><i>Westerdam</i></a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Noordam" title="MS Noordam"><i>Noordam</i></a> (2006)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i>Rotterdam</i> class</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MS_Volendam" title="MS Volendam"><i>Volendam</i></a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MS_Zaandam" title="MS Zaandam"><i>Zaandam</i></a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="3" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MS_Volendam,_Fremantle,_2012.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="MS Volendam, Fremantle Harbour, 2012." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG/180px-MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG" decoding="async" width="180" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG/270px-MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG/360px-MS_Volendam%2C_Fremantle%2C_2012.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4626" data-file-height="3067" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Planned</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/SS_Justicia" title="SS Justicia">Statendam</a></i> (Handed over to the <a href="/wiki/White_Star_Line" title="White Star Line">White Star Line</a> before completion and renamed <i>Justicia</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam#Past_Zuiderdams" title="MS Zuiderdam">Zuiderdam</a></i> (Never completed)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former fleet</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SS_Rotterdam_(1872)" title="SS Rotterdam (1872)"><i>Rotterdam</i></a> (1872)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_W._A._Scholten" title="SS W. A. Scholten"><i>W. A. Scholten</i></a> (1874)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=SS_Zaandam_(1882)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SS Zaandam (1882) (page does not exist)"><i>Zaandam</i></a> (1882)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Rotterdam_(1886)" title="SS Rotterdam (1886)"><i>Rotterdam</i></a> (1886)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SS_Baltic_(1871)" title="SS Baltic (1871)">Veendam</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SS_Republic_(1871)" title="SS Republic (1871)">Maasdam</a></i> (1889)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SS_Arabic_(1881)" title="SS Arabic (1881)">Spaarndam</a></i> (1890)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SS_Dwinsk" title="SS Dwinsk">Rotterdam</a></i> (1897)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Statendam_(1898)" title="SS Statendam (1898)"><i>Statendam</i></a> (1898)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Potsdam_(1899)" title="SS Potsdam (1899)"><i>Potsdam</i></a> (1900)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Rijndam" title="USS Rijndam"><i>Rijndam</i></a> (1901)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Noordam_(1902)" title="SS Noordam (1902)"><i>Noordam</i></a> (1902)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Nieuw_Amsterdam_(1905)" title="SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1905)"><i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i></a> (1906)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Rotterdam_(1908)" title="SS Rotterdam (1908)"><i>Rotterdam</i></a> (1908)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Maartensdijk" title="USS Maartensdijk"><i>Maartensdijk</i></a> (1909)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Zuiderdijk" title="USS Zuiderdijk"><i>Zuiderdijk</i></a> (1912)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Oosterdijk" title="USS Oosterdijk"><i>Oosterdijk</i></a> (1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Westerdijk" title="SS Westerdijk"><i>Westerdijk</i></a> (1913)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/USS_Beukelsdijk" title="USS Beukelsdijk"><i>Beukelsdijk</i></a> (1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Blommersdijk" title="SS Blommersdijk"><i>Blommersdijk</i></a> (1916)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Binnendijk" title="SS Binnendijk"><i>Binnendijk</i></a> (1921)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Maasdam_(1920)" title="SS Maasdam (1920)"><i>Maasdam</i></a> (1921)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink"><i>Beemsterdijk</i></a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Volendam" title="SS Volendam"><i>Volendam</i></a> (1922)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Veendam_(1922)" title="SS Veendam (1922)"><i>Veendam</i></a> (1923)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Statendam_(1924)" title="SS Statendam (1924)"><i>Statendam</i></a> (1929)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Nieuw_Amsterdam_(1937)" title="SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1937)"><i>Nieuw Amsterdam</i></a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=MV_Noordam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MV Noordam (page does not exist)"><i>Noordam</i></a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MV_Zaandam" title="MV Zaandam"><i>Zaandam</i></a> (1938)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/TSMS_Lakonia" title="TSMS Lakonia">Johan van Oldenbarnevelt</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Pennland" title="SS Pennland"><i>Pennland</i></a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/SS_Westernland" title="SS Westernland"><i>Westernland</i></a> (1939)</li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/German_trawler_V_306_Fritz_Hincke" title="German trawler V 306 Fritz Hincke">V 306 <i>Fritz Hincke</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 Jan: <a href="/wiki/Spica-class_torpedo_boat" title="Spica-class torpedo boat"><i>Vega</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Jan: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Southampton_(83)" title="HMS Southampton (83)">HMS <i>Southampton</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Jan: <a href="/wiki/SS_Oropesa_(1919)" title="SS Oropesa (1919)"><i>Oropesa</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">17 Jan: <a href="/wiki/SS_Almeda_Star" title="SS Almeda Star"><i>Almeda Star</i></a>, <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Traffic_(1911)" title="SS Traffic (1911)">Ingenieur Riebell</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">20 Jan: <a href="/wiki/SS_Florian" title="SS Florian"><i>Florian</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">22 Jan: <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Melita" title="SS Melita">Liguria</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/MS_Oslofjord_(1937)" title="MS 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title="HMS Illustrious (87)">HMS <i>Illustrious</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">11 Jan: <a href="/wiki/SS_Manhattan_(1931)" title="SS Manhattan (1931)"><i>Manhattan</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">16 Jan: <a href="/wiki/HTMS_Thonburi" title="HTMS Thonburi">HTMS <i>Thonburi</i></a>, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(87)" title="HMS Illustrious (87)">HMS <i>Illustrious</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">19 Jan: <a href="/wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(87)" title="HMS Illustrious (87)">HMS <i>Illustrious</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">23 Jan: <a href="/wiki/MV_Californian_(1921)" title="MV Californian (1921)"><i>Empire Seal</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">26 Jan: <i><a href="/wiki/SS_Empire_Bell" title="SS Empire Bell">Belgia</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div><a href="/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_1940" title="List of shipwrecks in 1940">1940</a> <span typeof="mw:File"><a 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