View of Dutch troopship HMT Nieuw Zeeland, a former passenger and cargo ship, sinking after it ...

Accession Number P04874.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Donaldson, Colin Raymond
Place made At sea
Date made 11 November 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

View of Dutch troopship HMT Nieuw Zeeland, a former passenger and cargo ship, sinking after it was torpedoed at 11.45 am by a German U-boat in the Mediterranean Sea approximately 100 miles east of Gibraltar. From a crew of approximately 300, only 21 did not survive.