SCHOKLAND

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Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 438 by A. Vuijk & Zonen, Capelle a/d IJssel for N.V. Scheepvaart & Steenkolen Mij, Rotterdam.
Launched as the SCHOKLAND named after a former small island in the Zuiderzee, Netherlands now part of the Noordoost Polder.
Tonnage 1,113 gross, dim. 68.7 (bpp) x 10.1m.
Powered by a triple expansion steam engine, hp?, speed 10 knots.
December 1915 completed. Homeport Rotterdam.

March 1918 chartered by the British Shipping Controller and managed by John Good & Sons, London.
1919 Returned to owners.
02 May 1942 seized by the Germans at Rotterdam, then used as a transport by the Germans in the Channel Islands.
04 January 1943 under German command with on board 284 German troops she stranded on a rock off Noirmont Point, Jersey in position 49 08 N 02 10 W. After stranding she sank almost immediately with the loss of 106 German troops.

Jersey 2011 64p sg?, scott?

Source: Register of Merchant Ships completed in the year 1915 (World Ship Society.) Various web-site.

[D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen]

Engine Manifacturer N.V. Maatschappij voor Scheeps & Werktuigbouw Fyenoord, Rotterdam 3 cil. triple expansion: 800 INP, Nt:624, Dw:1370, draft:4,57m.