Territory Stories
SS Van den Bosch
Details:
Title
SS Van den Bosch,
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
Troopship,
Unit
SS Van den Bosch,
Alternative unit name
Van Der Bosche,
Parent unit
Koninklijke Paketvaaet Maatschappij (KPM),
Date arrived in NT
1945-06-27,
Date left the NT
1945-09-25,
History
Left Tandjiong Priok 23 February 1942 and came to Australia. During 1942-45 she served as a workhorse in the shuttle to Papua New Guinea. She survived the war and was returned to KPM. She carried 700 Tasmanian Diggers from Darwin to Koepang in Timor to be present at the local Japanese surrender ceremony and take over that part of the island. She made 3 trips 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,
Trooship,
SS Van den Bosch,
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/C43648 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 044771, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/UMGENI_TO_WAIPIO.pdf [Van Den Bosch (2699) p.45-50],
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/kpm.shtml [Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=47776 [SS Van Den Bosch],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843641 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843641
Related items
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843883 ,
Territory Stories
SS Van den Bosch
Details:
Title
SS Van den Bosch,
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
Troopship,
Unit
SS Van den Bosch,
Alternative unit name
Van Der Bosche,
Parent unit
Koninklijke Paketvaaet Maatschappij (KPM),
Date arrived in NT
1945-06-27,
Date left the NT
1945-09-25,
History
Left Tandjiong Priok 23 February 1942 and came to Australia. During 1942-45 she served as a workhorse in the shuttle to Papua New Guinea. She survived the war and was returned to KPM. She carried 700 Tasmanian Diggers from Darwin to Koepang in Timor to be present at the local Japanese surrender ceremony and take over that part of the island. She made 3 trips 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,
Trooship,
SS Van den Bosch,
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/C43648 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 044771, Second World War, 1939-1945] ,
http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/UMGENI_TO_WAIPIO.pdf [Van Den Bosch (2699) p.45-50],
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/kpm.shtml [Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij],
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=47776 [SS Van Den Bosch],
Parent handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843641 ,
Citation address
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843641
Related items
https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843883 ,