Territory Stories

Tasman

Details:

Title

Tasman,

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

Cargo and Passenger Steamship,

Unit

Tasman,

Parent unit

Koninklijke Paketvaaet Maatschappij (KPM),

Date arrived in NT

1942-07-19,

Date left the NT

1942-07-20,

History

Tasman became a United States hospital ship in 1942 but only flew the Dutch flag. She made 1 trip 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, Cargo, Steamship, Passenger, Hospital ship, Tasman,

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/C241594 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 302811, Naval Historical Collection], http://www.navy.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/TAROONA_TO_TIERYO.pdf [Tasman (1807)(2545) p.23-29], http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/kpm.shtml [Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843637,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/843890