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SS Bloemfontein (0272)

Details:

Title

SS Bloemfontein (0272),

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Darwin Harbour,

Nation of service

Netherlands,

Service

Merchant Navy,

Service branch

Passenger Steamship,

Unit

SS Bloemfontein (0272),

Parent unit

Vereenigde Nederlandsche Scheepvaart-Maatschappij Naamlooze Vennootschap,

Date arrived in NT

1942-01-05,

Date left the NT

1942-01-07,

History

Bloemfontein was a Dutch merchant ship leased to the War Shipping Administration. She was used as a troop and cargo transport during WWII. She was part of the Pensacola convoy and carried 18 crated 24 Group P-40 Kittyhawks. 26 Field Artillery Brigade - 2 Battalion, 131 Field Artillery and the 75 strong AVG P-40 outfit were also on board. She made 1 trip to Darwin.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Merchant Navy, Netherlands, Passengers steamship, SS Bloemfontein (0272),

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C248577 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 303006, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/BIDELIA_BRITHA.pdf [Bloemfontein SS (0272) p.59-61], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=47786 [SS Bloemfontein (0272)],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843618,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843618

Related items

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843861,