Wreck Baloeran
MS Baloeran was built in 1929 and commissioned a year later.
For ten years, the Baloeran shuttled thousands of passengers and countless tons of valuable cargo between Rotterdam and the Dutch East Indies via the regular route through the Suez Canal. In May 1940, the ship was captured by the German occupiers, who converted it into a hospital ship for the Kriegsmarine and renamed it Strassburg. In late August 1943, the ship struck a mine near Egmond aan Zee and sank. And since then it has been located at this spot near the buoy.
©Johan Moerbeek
Wreck Baloeran
MS Baloeran was built in 1929 and commissioned a year later.
For ten years, the Baloeran shuttled thousands of passengers and countless tons of valuable cargo between Rotterdam and the Dutch East Indies via the regular route through the Suez Canal. In May 1940, the ship was captured by the German occupiers, who converted it into a hospital ship for the Kriegsmarine and renamed it Strassburg. In late August 1943, the ship struck a mine near Egmond aan Zee and sank. And since then it has been located at this spot near the buoy.
©Johan Moerbeek