Territory Stories

Fort Schuyler

Details:

Title

Fort Schuyler,

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

Tanker,

Unit

Fort Schuyler,

Date arrived in NT

1945-09-17,

Date left the NT

1945-10-24,

History

Built in 1944 the Fort Schuyler was lease/loaned to the Dutch government where it delivered oil and aviation fuel to the Allied Forces during World War II. She made 2 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, Tanker, Fort Schuyler,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Auke Visser's Famous T,

License

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

Related links

http://www.aukevisser.nl/t2tanker/id738.htm [Auke Visser's Famous T - Tankers Pages], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/FERNPLANT_FORT-TREMBLANT.pdf [Fort Schulyer p.165], http://www.usmm.org/tankers.html [Tankers built in U.S. during WWII],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843623,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843980