MV Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

Deck Plans of Pieter Hooft Corneliszoon

The construction

After reconstruction in 1931

The Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was a station ship, which was built in 1926 by the shipyard Société des Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St. Nazaire, France for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij " Nederland ", Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was considered the " ill-fated ship " the shipping company.

History

Having already probably broke out on her Shipyard twice due to short circuits fire, Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft was delivered to their shipping company in July 1926 under the hull number 256 at, IJmuiden reached on 23 of the month for the first time and ran in regular service until 1931 on the Amsterdam Java.

As the ship had proved despite the incorporation of the then largest available Sulzer diesel engines to be too slow, it was extended in 1931, rebuilt and equipped with two powerful Sulzer diesel engines. During the subsequent test drive burst a boiler.

On November 13, 1932, the PC Hooft fell again during fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas in Amsterdam on fire. To prevent skipping the flames, they dragged the boat on the open water, where it burned for nine days. While the burned wreckage was towed then abort after Hendrik -Ido- Ambacht, it capsized at first almost. In the Pernis Pieter Hooft Corneliszoon ran aground, began to bustle, to then one more time to get into the scrap yard on fire and sinking. Then it was finally cut only after the evacuation. The ship was replaced by the Neptunia.