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The story of a Dutch freighter during the Second World War

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The Stories
- The Last Voyage, week by week
- A.W. Kik’s memoires
The Ship
The Crew
The Routes
Fragments
Pictures
Documents

Documents Atlantic sinking 1942

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Route sixth voyage
Pictures last voyage
Pictures Tjilatjap evacuation
Abbekerk’s gunners (I), Lt Geoff North’s story
Abbekerk’s gunners (II): Walter MacNab’s story
My Fighting Congregation
The Sinking of Abbekerk and other war memories (Dutch)
They fought with what they had
Tweedale’s war (BBC People’s War)
Willard A. “Bill” Heath
Sidney McConville, Newspaper article about a crewmember
The Crew
Crew Pictures
No ordinairy war, the eventful career of U604
Documents Atlantic sinking 1942
Tjilatjap evacuees list
English movementcard
Dutch movement card
Australian Movementcard

Adriaan Willem Kik (1919-2000)

Adriaan W Kik, who's memoirs are the inspiration and base of this website

Lest we forget

The Netherlands started the war with 640 seagoing ships. From these 351 ships were lost during the war. Of the 12000 Dutch and 6500 other nationalities that manned those ships, 3600 were killed.

Killed while serving on Abbekerk:

Herbertus Boender, ass. engineer, March 10, 1940 (accident in London)

Pieter Balk (19), 3de cook, August 24, 1942 (when Abbekerk sunk)

Geert Frederik van der Laan, 1st Mate, August 24, 1942 (when Abbekerk sunk).

Still under repair …

The site is still not fully repaired after a hack attempt. Some parts, including few of the Dutch translations and menu’s,still do not work yet. This will be fixt later this year.
Apologies for the inconvenience, Peter.

Authors

Peter

The Stories:

The Last Voyage, week by week

Follow Abbekerk's final voyage in a well documented 60 posts Blog (written in 2017)

Adriaan Kik’s memoirs

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Engineer Adriaan Kik looks back on his war time voyages on Abbekerk (written in 2000)

About the main stories

Background on the 2 stories below

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