The story of a Dutch freighter during the Second World War
2 September 1942. Me, the captain and some others were transferred to the Dutch SS Jan van Goyen. We had been picked up just in time: already in the afternoon winds became stronger and around midnight we found ourselfs in...
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...
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...
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...
Adriaan W Kik, who's memoirs are the inspiration and base of this website
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