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19-645: Willem Ruys (1809–1889) was a shipbroker , freight forwarder and insurance agent in Rotterdam. In 1838 he entered into his first partenrederij , trading with the Dutch East Indies  and the  Far East . After the Suez Canal opened in 1869, his son  Willem Ruys (1837–1901) expanded the company in 1872 with a steamship service to  Batavia . In 1875 Willem Ruys founded Partenrederij Stoomboot Reederij "Rotterdamsche Lloyd" . In 1881

38-539: A hostage in July 1942, and executed him a month later. RL's first new passenger ship after the war, whose building had started in 1939, was completed in 1947 as Willem Ruys in his honour. Indonesia won its independence  in 1949, the Dutch colonial empire declined, and commercial aviation took an increasing share of passenger travel.  Sibajak was converted into an emigrant ship in 1951, and scrapped in 1959. Indrapoera

57-594: A 21,000  GRT motor ship in 1938, and she was laid down in 1939, but she was still being built when Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940. Enemy action in the Second World War sank at least 16 RL ships, with the loss of about 1,000 lives. Smaller numbers of RL ships were either captured by German forces and later sunk by Allied action, or scuttled to prevent capture. On April 27, 1941, German air attacks during

76-462: A German hospital ship and renamed Strassburg . On September 1, 1943 she was mined off IJmuiden , and grounded. Later that month, a British air raid set her on fire, and then a Royal Navy torpedo boat destroyed her. Baloeran ' s sister ship Dempo became an Allied troopship . U-371 sank her by torpedo in the Mediterranean on March 17, 1944. Dempo was the largest Dutch ship sunk in

95-561: The German invasion of Greece sank Slamat , which by then was a troopship , and then sank two Royal Navy destroyers that had rescued her survivors. The  Slamat disaster is the biggest loss of life in Dutch ; merchant navy history. 983 people were killed, most of them from Slamat . In the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, Baloeran was captured. She was converted into

114-721: The Imperial German Navy attacked numerous Dutch ships, usually sinking them. Four RL ships were sunk, and at least one was damaged. On February 15, 1916, Bandoeng was damaged in the North Sea by a mine laid by UC-5 . On March 18, 1916 Palembang was sunk in the North Sea by a mine laid by UC-10 . On December 1, 1916 U-47 torpedoed Kediri in the Canary Islands . On February 1, 1917, Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare . On February 22, U-21 torpedoed

133-534: The Norwegian cargo ship Normanna in the Celtic Sea , and then attacked a Dutch convoy that stopped to rescue survivors. U-21 sank six Dutch ships, including two of RL's. One was Bandoeng , which had survived being mined a year before. The other RL ship that U-21 sank was Jacatra . A boarding party from U-21 detonated scuttling charges aboard a third RL ship, Menado , but she remained afloat. In April 1917

152-700: The United States Navy . Other RL ships remained civilian, but controlled by the United States Shipping Board or the UK Shipping Controller . Two RL ships were lost in US service. On June 2, 1918, U-151 torpedoed Texel in the North Atlantic south of New York . In November 1918 Ophir caught fire off Gibraltar , which led to an explosion on November 11 that killed two of her crew. Ophir

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190-1309: The Nederlandsche Scheepvaart Unie (NSU). In 1977 NSU became NedLloyd, and in 1997 it became P&O Nedlloyd . The archives of the KRL were transferred to the municipal archives of Rotterdam. Willem Jan Danielszoon Ruys Look for Willem Jan Danielszoon Ruys on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Willem Jan Danielszoon Ruys in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

209-752: The Second World War. On March 16, 1941 the German battleship  Scharnhorst sank the RL steamship Mangkai by shellfire, killing 36 of her crew. On June 19, 1944 U-181 sank the turbine steamship Garoet , killing 89 of her 99 crew. On March 1, 1942 the Imperial Japanese Navy sank two RL cargo ships. The cruiser Chikuma shelled the motor ship Modjokerto in the Indian Ocean south of Christmas Island , severely damaging her. The submarine I-58 then sank her by torpedo, killing 42 of her crew. On

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228-685: The USA declared war against the Central Powers . By June 1917, US authorities were detaining Dutch merchant ships in US ports. In March 1918 the United States Customs Service seized 89 Dutch ships under angary , including at least 11 RL ships: Arakan , Besoeki , Gorontalo , Malang , Merauke , Ophir , Samarinda , Ternate and Texel . The United Kingdom also seized Dutch merchant ships, including RL's Goentoer , Madioen and Pontianak . At least eight RL ships were commissioned into

247-625: The company was renamed Stoomvaart Maatschappij "Rotterdamsche Lloyd" . On June 15, 1883 it was converted into the public limited company Rotterdamsche Lloyd NV. It had a fleet of seven ships, each owned by a different partenrederij , but all managed by Wm. Ruys & Zonen. The Netherlands were neutral in the First World War . The hulls of Dutch merchant ships were clearly marked, with their name and port of registry painted along their side in large capital letters. Large Dutch flags were also painted on their sides. However,

266-446: The purge function . Titles on Misplaced Pages are case sensitive except for the first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Jan_Danielszoon_Ruys " Woermann-Linie The Woermann-Linie

285-459: The same day, I-58 sank by torpedo the turbine steamship Langkoeas , whose crew launched two lifeboats. I-58 rammed one of the lifeboats and machine-gunned the other. 91 of Langkoeas ' 94 crew were killed. The Japanese Navy took 35 survivors from Modjokerto to Kendari Airport on Sulawesi , where they beheaded them and buried them in a mass grave. The German occupiers of the Netherlands arrested director  Willem Ruys (1894–1942) as

304-677: Was a German shipping company that operated from 1885 to 1942. It was founded on 15 June 1885 by Adolph Woermann and developed as one of the leading shipping companies between Europe and Africa . From 1899 the company was headquartered in Afrikahaus , in Hamburg . For decades it transported contract laborers to various places on the African continent, for instance, workers from Liberia and Nigeria to Spanish Guinea . The Woermann family sold it to Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie in 1916. In 1942, it and

323-439: Was built in 1924 and Indrapoera was built in 1925. They were both about 11,000  GRT , but Slamat was a steam turbine ship and Indrapoera was a motor ship . In 1928 they were joined by the 12,000  GRT motor ship Sibajak . RL's largest ships between the two World wars were a pair of 17,000  GRT motor ships: Baloeran  built in 1929, and her sister ship Dempo  built in 1930. RL ordered

342-429: Was salvaged in 1919, but not returned to her owners, and in 1922 she was scrapped. RL received three German ships as reparations . In 1918 DDG Hansa 's Uhenfels was renamed Bandoeng , Hamburg America Line 's Westmark was renamed Jacatra . In 1921 Woermann-Linie 's uncompleted Wadai was completed as RL's Tjerimai . In the 1920s and 30s RL added new ships to its fleet, including larger ocean liners . Slamat

361-549: Was sold in 1956. In Willem Ruys was sold to the Italian shipping magnate Achille Lauro , who renamed her after himself. KRL sought new trades. New ships included the 12,000  GRT oil tankers Ameland , built in 1956, and Vlieland , built in 1959. Smit-Lloyd was founded in 1964, together with  Smit International , to operate platform supply vessels for the offshore. On January 20, 1970, KRL merged with four other Dutch shipping companies to form

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