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Sunday, March 19, 2023 @ 1240 		VOLENDAM (1922-40 Passenger / cargo liner 575ft 175m long of Holland America Line : 1940-45 Transport / Troop Transport : 1947-51 returned to her owners for passenger service : Scrapped in 1952) Own Page

Dutch liner VOLENDAM during World War 2
Port of RegistryRotterdam (Netherlands)
Gross Tonnage14.434

 

E-mail from Jim (Rothesay)      1240 on 19 March 2023

 

Hello Douglas.

 

Dutch liner VOLENDAM during World War 2

 

What an amazing and useful website you have for shipping of the past in the Clyde.

 

   A story was handed down through my family, grandparents to my parents then to me.   We have always stayed in Rothesay ( Douglas adds = Isle of Bute, Firth of Clyde, Scotland).

   The story was that in the second world war a large Dutch passenger liner VOLENDAM had been seriously damaged in a German attack in the Atlantic and was brought into the Clyde and, to stop it sinking, was beached on the Isle of Bute.   My grandfather had a photograph (long since lost) of the ship on the beach.  and I remember seeing the photograph in his house, and on the back of the photograph was written Dutch ship VOLENDAM after being torpedoed by a German submarine.

 

Do any of your readers have information on this ship and the torpedoing ?

Jim (Rothesay)