Simon Bolivar
1939
(Rhenania RH-184c)
- Type: General cargo / passenger
- Displacement: 8,300 tons
- Dimensions: 419-9 x 59-1 x 26-5 ft.
- Machinery: Steam quadruple expansion, single screw, 8,000 SHP = 14 knots
- Passengers: 215 (131 first class, 52 second class, 32 third class)
- Crew:
- Builder: Rotterdamsche Droogdok Mattschappij, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1927
- Service: Built for Royal Netherlands Steamship Co (known by its Dutch initials KNSM) for passenger service from the Netherlands and New York to the Caribbean and South America. Struck two mines off Harwich 18 Nov 1939 and sank with the loss of 84 lives.
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