Steamship built in Denmark in 1907 and sunk by a U-boat in 1940
Model of Har Zion in the Israeli National Maritime Museum
History
Name
1907: St. Jan
1913: Nickerie
1933: Risveglio
1935: Har Zion
Namesake
1907: Sankt Jan
1913: Nickerie River
1933: "Awakening"
1935: Mount Zion
Owner
1907: Østasiatiske Kompagni
1913: Koninklijke Nederlandse SM
1918: US Shipping Board
1919: Koninklijke Nederlandse SM
1933: Ignazio Messina & Co
1935: Palestine Maritime Lloyd
Operator
1918: Emergency Fleet Corp
1919: Kon West-Indische Mij
1927: Koninklijke Nederlandse SM
Port of registry
1907: Copenhagen
1913: Amsterdam
1918:
1919: Amsterdam
1933: Genoa
1935: Famagusta
Builder
Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen
Yard number
256
Launched
1907
Completed
June 1907
Identification
1907: code letters NQHR
1913: code letters PMRF
1918: call sign PER
1933: code letters PEOB
1935: UK official number 114941
1935: call sign VQSF
Fate
Sunk by torpedo in 1940
General characteristics
Type
passenger and cargo ship
Tonnage
2,478 GRT, 1,597 NRT, 3,285 DWT
Length
326.0 ft (99.36 m) overall
310.8 ft (94.7 m) registered
Beam
40.7 ft (12.4 m)
Depth
18.8 ft (5.7 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
281 NHP, 1,450 ihp
Propulsion
1 × screw
1 × triple expansion engine
Speed
11 knots (20 km/h)
Capacity
passengers: 53 × 1st class, 186 × deck
cargo: 147,000 cu ft (4,200 m3) grain; 140,000 cu ft (4,000 m3) bale
Sensors and processing systems
by 1930: wireless direction finding
Armament
in wartime: DEMS
Notes
sister ships: St. Thomas, St. Croix
SS Har Zion (הַר צִיּוֹן) was a passenger and cargo steamship that was built in Denmark in 1907 as St. Jan for Det Østasiatiske Kompagni. In 1913 Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij bought her and renamed her Nickerie. In 1933 Ignazio Messina & Co bought her and renamed her Risveglio. In 1935 Palestine Maritime Lloyd bought her and renamed her Har Zion.
In 1918 the First World War the United States seized Nickerie under angary. In 1940 in the Second World War a U-boat sank Har Zion by torpedo in the North Atlantic, killing 36 of her 37 crew.
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