C.
ROTTERDAM LLOYD (Koninklijke Rotterdamsche
Lloyd)

From the "Old Ship Picture Galleries"
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Sibajak - twscm 12226gt 1927, Flushing
See section
(WW2A) below
(Built for the East Indies trade)
1940 converted to a troop
transport
1941 in two voyages carried
Australian troops to Singapore
and Egypt
1946 returned to owners and the
East Indies service
1950-1951 carried emigrants
from
the Netherlands to Australia
1959 scrapped
Postcard in the author's
collection
Willem
Ruys – twscm 21,14gt 1947
Photo in Arnold Kludas' "Great
Flushing (Built for East Indies service)
Passenger Ships of the World"
1958-1959 refitted
Vol 4 1936-1950, pp. 156-157.
1959-1964 operated service
Rotterdam via Southampton and
Suez to Melbourne, Sydney and
Wellington returning via
Panama
1964 sold to Flotta Lauro
r/n Achille
Lauro (FL)
Link to Sources
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