SHIPS HIT NETHERLANDS 30 - DUTCH SHIPS LOST/DAMAGED/CAPTURED
20)OMBILIN (SUB ENRICO TAZZOLI)
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Built: 1916
Tonnage: 5,658 / 8,040 tons
Cargo: Wood, Steel, Ammunition and General cargo
Route: Montreal - New York - Trinidad - Capetown
Sunk 12 DEC 42 by Italian submarine Tazzoli on pos. 07º 25”N 39º 19” W
0 Dead
77 Survivors
2 POW
On 12 December 1942 Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli intercepted and sank the 5,658t. Dutch ship OMBILIN. Built in 1916 by the Nederlanssche Dok Maatschappij, of Amsterdam, the ship belonged to Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij, a Dutch company based in Java. The location of the sinking was given at 07º 25"N 39º 19"W. Of the crewmembers, 79 were rescued, while 2 were taken prisoner.
Of her crew of eighty-one, the Master and the Engineer were captured by the submarine, twenty-four survivors were rescued by the British steamer City of Sidney, thirty by the Argentine tanker Santa Cruz but there were no information on the rescue of the remaining survivors.
