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Revision as of 20:10, 1 July 2023
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 Van Imhoff, sometime between 1914–1940.
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| History | |
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| Name | Van Imhoff |
| Out of service | 18 January 1942 |
| Fate | Bombed and sunk 18 January 1942 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Cargo ship |
| Tonnage | 2,980 GRT |
| Length | 99 m (325.5 ft) |
| Installed power | 3-cylinder triple expansion steam engine |
| Propulsion | 1 × single-screw propeller |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (21 km/h; 13 mph) |
SS Van Imhoff was a Dutch-built cargo-passenger vessel that was constructed at the Fijenoord shipyard, Rotterdam, in 1914. The ship was 99 m (325.5 ft) long, with a speed of 11.5 knots (21 km/h; 13 mph). It was a single-screw propeller ship, driven by a one three-cylinder, triple expansion steam engine.[1]
In January 1942 the ship was sunk by a Japanese warplane while carrying German internees from the Dutch East Indies to Ceylon. As of June 2023, the location of the Van Imhoff's wreck is unknown.
Sinking
On 18 January 1942, the ship departed from Sibolga, Dutch East Indies, bound for Ceylon. On board were the Dutch crew, soldiers from Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) and 473 German internees (crews of captured German merchant vessels and civilians with German backgrounds), some held below and some in hastily created cages on deck. During the following morning the ship was attacked by a Japanese Mitsubishi G4M bomber and sustained damage towards the bow. This caused the ship immediately to begin listing towards the port side. Roughly 10 or 12 minutes later, the first lifeboat was lowered into the water, while crew and guards onboard kept the prisoners below deck. Over the next hour or so, five of the six lifeboats were lowered into the sea. As the last Dutch seamen and soldiers left the ship, the prisoners were released. The single remaining lifeboat, some bamboo life rafts and a workboat took some 200 of the internees; the remainder drowned.[2][3]
Rescue
The lifeboats reached shore safely. The Dutch authorities alerted merchant vessels in the area and despatched a rescue tug from Padang, with a small party of KNIL soldiers to guard any German survivors. Of the internees who escaped the ship, only those in the two boats survived; all those on the liferafts died.[2]
References
- ^ "Van Imhoff - ID 6890" (in Dutch). Stichting Maritiem-Historische Databank. Retrieved 30 June 2023.
- ^ a b Womack, Tom (2015). The Allied Defense of the Malay Barrier, 1941-1942. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. p. 127. ISBN 9781476662930.
- ^ "VanImhoff.info - home". vanimhoff.info. Retrieved 2023-05-31.