H E Jark
Survivor | 0000 | Ship engineer on ss SONECK
Ship engineer on ss Soneck. In some documents mistakenly named ss Gonneck
In his book "Batavia seint Berlijn" (page 283), Van Heekeren quotes a letter by survivor Johannes Grasshoff, who informs that he explored the landing area on Nias together with a man called Jark.
0n 28 November 2020, maritime researcher J Rozenburg mailed:
"There are no data on a German ship that was seized in Netherlands East Indies with the name of GONNECK.
I believe the name is misspelled and should be SONECK. This ship from the HANSA A.G. was interned in may 1940 in Padang (Sumatra)."
In his book "Batavia seint Berlijn" (page 283), Van Heekeren quotes a letter by survivor Johannes Grasshoff, who informs that he explored the landing area on Nias together with a man called Jark.
0n 28 November 2020, maritime researcher J Rozenburg mailed:
"There are no data on a German ship that was seized in Netherlands East Indies with the name of GONNECK.
I believe the name is misspelled and should be SONECK. This ship from the HANSA A.G. was interned in may 1940 in Padang (Sumatra)."
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