Bodegraven (ship)
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The SS Bodegraven was a Dutch merchant and passenger ship that was sunk by a German submarine during World War II .
history
The ship was completed in February 1929. It was used on the Beira- Durban - Freetown- Great Britain route, among others . On May 14, 1940, the Bodegraven, already under machine gun fire from the Germans, was used from Holland for a transport of children to England, although it had actually been planned to sink the ship to make the port of IJmuiden impassable for German submarines do. Sixty-six or more children, many of whom were to be placed in English families, others to be placed in an orphanage in Manchester , were on board. This was the last Kindertransport that was operated from Holland. A total of around 200 people were on the ship on this voyage, including the Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his family. Goudstikker died by falling through a ship's hatch on the darkened Bodegraven .
Sinking
The Bodegraven , which was under the command of Captain BA Molenaar without escort, was hit by a torpedo on July 2, 1944 at 1.30 a.m. about 200 miles south of Monrovia , which was shot down by U-547 under Heinrich Niemeyer. It sank in twelve minutes; an emergency call could no longer be made. Because one of the four lifeboats had been destroyed by the shot, the 63 crew members and the 48 passengers had to distribute themselves to the other boats and some life rafts. One of these boats landed on the coast of Gran Bassa , the occupants of the other two were picked up by ships from Freetown, including the HMS Pict . The skipper was captured by the Germans. Nine people, including three ship passengers, were killed.
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- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.kindestransporte.de/background.php
- ↑ http://www.bochum.de/C12571A3001D56CE/vwContentByKey/W28AZEDS562BOLDDE/$FILE/109_adler_alexander.pdf
- ↑ http://www.art-magazin.de/div/heftarchiv/2005/7/OGOWTEGWPPSPCPOGEECPCGCRTRHGWTRWWTCW/Detektiv-auf-G%F6rings-Spuren ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Erich Wiedemann: ART: "An enormous bloodletting" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 2006 ( online - April 10, 2006 ).
- ↑ http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/bamboozling-ourselves-part-7/
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/78/a3836478.shtml
