![]() Van Heemskerk off Gorontalo, about 1910
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History | |
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Name | Van Heemskerk |
Owner |
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Operator | 1918: British India SN Co |
Port of registry | |
Builder | Nederlandsche SM, Amsterdam |
Yard number | 100 |
Laid down | 5 April 1909 |
Launched | 31 August 1909 |
Completed | 29 October 1909 |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by air attack, 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger ship |
Tonnage | 2,996 GRT, 1,896 NRT, 4,377 DWT |
Length | 325.5 ft (99.2 m) |
Beam | 43.8 ft (13.4 m) |
Depth | 25.0 ft (7.6 m) |
Decks | 3 |
Installed power | 233 NHP, 1,300 ihp |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 10+1⁄2 knots (19.4 km/h) |
Capacity | |
Armament | 1942: DEMS |
Notes | one of several sister ships |
SS Van Heemskerk was a passenger steamship that was launched in the Netherlands in 1909 and sunk by enemy action off New Guinea in 1943. She spent most of her career with Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM, the "Royal Packet Navigation Company"), based in the Dutch East Indies.
In the First World War the United Kingdom seized her under angary. In the Second World War she escaped the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, and became part of the Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) command's permanent local fleet. A Japanese air attack sank her on 26 June 1943.
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