SS Beemsterdijk
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ss-beemsterdijk-170-1670361
title:
SS Beemsterdijk
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SS Beemsterdijk was a Holland America Line (NASM) cargo steamship. She was one of NASM's B-class ships: the company's first cargo ships to be powered by steam turbines. She was built in Rotterdam in 1922. A mine sank the ship in the Irish Sea in 1941, with the loss of 39 of her 42 crew. Her survivors drifted in a life raft for four days, until an RNLI lifeboat rescued them off the coast of Ireland. Some sources anglicise the ship's name to Beemsterdyk. However, Lloyd's Register always recorded h
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Dutch cargo steamship sunk by an Allied mine in the Irish sea in 1941
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Beemsterdijk
date created:
2023-06-30T06:35:13Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T22:08:12Z
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