![]() As a result of the publicity the family of another seven passengers on the Zeemanshoop have been traced and their stories told on my web site about the Zeemanshoop. See: The event received huge publicity on Dutch television and national papers and a book in Dutch was launched at the reunion. And the Royal Navy sent HMS Trumpeter, the Cambridge University Royal Navy Unit's training ship, to the reunion of the families of the 46 men and women on the Zeemanshoop. For that purpose, it maintains 45 lifeboat stations along the Dutch coast of the North Sea and Wadden Sea and on the IJsselmeer. The son and daughter of Lt Cdr John McBeath, the CO of HMS Venomous in May 1940, attended. The Mayor of The Hague and the British Ambassador were there and the 90 year old Dutch lifeboat, Zeemanshoop (Seaman's Hope), newly restored took them round the harbour. They included one of the students, 95 year old Karel Dahmen, and a 92 year old "schoolboy", Loet Velmans. On the 14 May this year a hundred men and women from three continents assembled at Scheveningen to commemorate the 75th anniversary of their rescue. They were taken aboard Venomous and landed at Dover that evening. She had been hijacked by four university students and the refugees were mostly Jewish - some Dutch but others German - desperate to escape death in the Camps of Nazi Germany. Her deck was packed with refugees from the Netherlands who had left Scheveningen, the harbour and seaside resort for The Hague, at dusk the previous evening, the day the Netherlands surrendered. Also if you get attacked by a hacker you can tell me and I will come help you if mods wont help.LINK TO CHEAT U. On the HMS Venomous was escorting two minesweepers near the Goodwin Sands when a Dutch lifeboat was sighted making distress signals. discord is Cydides0676 for those wondering. The Dutch students served in the Dutch Navy or the RAF. Harry Hack recorded in his Diary being interviewed on the BBC which conveyed the news of their safe arrival to their families in the Netherlands. The German Jewish refugees, "Enemy Aliens", were interned on the Isle of Man. Lifeboat was hacked in January but opted not to notify users about the breach. ![]() The passengers and crew of the ZEEMANSHOOP were picked up by HMS VENOMOUS near the Goodwin Sands and landed at Dover. Karel Dahmen, the only surviving crew member, has described how they broke into the ZEEMANSHOOP and Radboud Hack, the son of the Captain of the four man student crew has carried out a “risk analysis” of the voyage in the top heavy over laden lifeboat which suggests that any change in the weather would have resulted in disaster. Radboud Hack, the son of Harry Hack, the "Captain" of the crew of students sent me his father's unpublished account of the voyage. Harry Holland was born on 14 February 1999 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. The story of the voyage of the ZEEMANSHOOP from Scheveningen to England with a crew of four students and 42 mainly Jewish passengers on the 14 - has been completely rewritten. ![]() Escape to England on the SEAMAN'S HOPE / ZEEMANSHOOP
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