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Boissevain

Post by shipstamps » Fri Jul 04, 2008 6:46 pm

Built 1937 Blohm and Voss, Hamburg for Royal Java China Packet Netherlands. 14134Gt. On 12 Oct 1945 she and Built 1937 Blohm & Voss for Royal Java China Packet Netherlands. 14134Gt. 8669Net. 844 passengers. On 12 Oct 1945 she and EMPIRE PRIDE were first ships to bring to Liverpool ex-prisoners of war from Japan.April 1963 carried first group of 51 tristan residents back to Island after their sojourn in England following the volcanic eruption in their homeland, the remainder returned in the BORNHOLM. Sold in 1968 to japanese shipbreakers.
Seychelles SG584. Tristanda Cunha SG82 and SG145. Mauritius SG593.
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