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Survivors of Dutch passenger vessel. Walter Boenenger, aged 11, a German boy whose parents are reported to be killed in the tragedy chatting with Mr. J.S. Muller, assistant engineer aboard the ship.

Departure of the S.S. Negbah for Israel, with the 426 Jewish orphans who spent the year in the Ilaniah Children's Village.

A passenger liner being built for New Zealand, for the run between Sydney and New Zealand. This is the berth on which the world,s two larges ships were built - the 81,000 ton Queen Mary, and her sister ship the Queen Elizabeth of 85,000 tons. The Queen Mary won the Blue Riband of the Atlantic in 1936 with a speed of 30.63 knots. Together they carried during the war a million and a quarter Allied soldiers. ...

British ship torpedoed. The British liner Ätheniaof the Donaldson Atlantic Lines, of Glasgow, which has been torpedoed 200 miles to the west of the Hebrides. There were 1,400 passengers aboard. Dit is een gemanipuleerde foto van het Cunard schip ANDANIA tijdens de proefvaart. Door de schoorsteen van een witte band te voorzien moest het gaan lijken op een schip van Donaldson. De foto moet van mei 1922 ...

Japanese ship sunk by mine. The captain of the Japanese motor vessel Terukani Maru photographed on arrival in London last night. The vessel sank after striking a mine off the East Coast, carrying 26 passengers. NI 1742

New 'Royal Sovereign', cross-Channel pleasure ship, on view at Southend. Passengers on the 'Medway Queen' passing the new ship 'Royal Sovereign' at Southend.

Cargo-ship (C-3 type). The Amerikan cargo ship of the new C-3 type, like the President Jackson, has greater speed than the older C-2 type. It has a raked stem and cruiser stern, a shelter deck and two steel decks extending from stem to stern below it. There are accomodations for 12 passengers, 47 officers and crew members. Diesel-propelled C-3 ships are 7,886 gross tons, with cargo capacityof 10.026 ...

Children arrive in U.S. after their Portuguese ship was stopped by German submarine fire. Three young boys smile happily at an American Navy officer after their arrival, on May 31, 1944, at an Eastern U.S. port, on a Portuguese ship which was stopped in the mid-Atlantic by German submarine fire. The children were among the neutral Serpa Pinto's 385 passengers and crewmen who spent nine hours in lifeboats ...

American citizen arrives in U.S. From Portuguese ship stopped by German submarine fire. Adelino de Cavalho leaves a U.S. Est Coast port where he arrived on May 31, 1944, on a Portuguese ship from which he had been taken abroad a German submarine and held for questioning, in the mid-Atlantic. Mr. de Cavalho, 40, an American citizen who has lived in Lisbon, Portugal, was among the 385 passengers and ...

K.P.M. vessel 'Janssens'. Chief Engineer J. van Klaveren of the 'Janssens'. He joined the ship in 1938. He was awarded the orde of Merit by Queen Wilhelmina for his action in bringing the ship from Java to Australia prior to the fall of java in March 1942, witch a scratch engine-room crew. Among the passengers on that trip was the famous Dr. Wassell. (K.P.M. staat voor Koninklijke Pakketvaart Maatschappij.) ...

U.S. Army ships built on wheels. The main section of the pre-fabricated superstructure of a U.S. Army FP (freight-passenger) vessel is lowered to the hull section which is cradled on a mobile carriage with steel wheels fitting on rails, at a shipyard in the U.S. Pacific Coast State of California. Parts of the 175-foot-long vessels are built inland, then transported 35 miles by truck to the yard where ...

The chief officer of the S.S. Negbah receives a Torah presented to the ship by the Amsterdam Jewish Community.