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Being low water just outside of Flushing, I advised the pilot to go slow and wait until there was a little more water near the buoy of Kaloo in the North Sea. Well, he said if we go slow we can pass the buoy on our Starboard. So I said I thought there was more water on our Portside. Thank God my officer stood close to me when the pilot said it and made a good witness.

Anyhow, at p. We waited until a. In the meantime tugboats asked me if I needed assistance, but knowing it was a sandbank, no harm could have been done to the bottom of the ship.

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Of course I was called into court again, but because the pilot did not show up, the case was closed. That trip we arrived in Rotterdam on July 1st. My plan was to get married in July in the United States, so I asked for a transfer to a passenger ship being five days in New York. I sailed to New York with passengers on July 10th, as captain on the m.

We docked in Hoboken on the 20th, and after a lot of difficulties, I got married at last in Alexandria Virginia on July 24th, drove back to Hoboken where we arrived at a hotel at 2 a. I came back to Rotterdam on August 3rd and was transferred to the s. During the voyage from Houston to Rotterdam via Antwerp I had a lady alcoholic on board who made herself a nuisance to the other passengers, so I tried to land her in Florida to get rid of her.

I later tried it again in Bermuda, but just twelve hours before she promised me to behave herself, so I had to cancel the boat that was going to pick her up near the outer buoy. Anyhow, after a lot more trouble, I disembarked her in Rotterdam on Oct. I made the same voyage again between October 24th, and January 18th, with twelve passengers one way and nine back.

In New Orleans my wife came on board, but she had to take a bus to Mobile to see me there and a plane to Houston, flying back to New York on December 22nd. In those days you were not allowed to have your wife on board at sea. Coming back to Holland, on January 30th I received, in person, from Prince Bernhard the consort of our Queen Juliana, a silver medal on account of my reports about hurricanes.

In February I was called back into court for the last time for that case of running aground. I had vacation from January 22nd until February 22nd and then was transferred to the s. With this ship I made two trips to the Gulf of Mexico with about eight to ten passengers, during the period of February 23rd to May 6th and from May 16th until August 4th My wife met me in Antwerp on July 30th and we had a vacation in Holland from August 5th until September 6th.

I introduced her to my family and visited England where we went to see the house where she was born, in the heart of London; so a real cockney. Another captains duty. In this way knowledge and interest for the sea and seafring professions would be nutured fom a young age. In this photo we see Captain Haagmans and two junior officers taking a schoolclass around the ss Almdyk.

On September 8th I sailed on the s. She was going to the United States to get married. We docked in Rotterdam on December 4th and made a short coastwise trip on her from December 9th until the 19th, to London, Bremen and Hamburg. From December 24th Christmas eve, some date for sailing until January 17th, I made one round-trip to New York on the m.

On the way we docked for a week in Los Angeles and I visited my stepson and family in Pacific Pallisade and my brother in law in San Francisco. On June 8th I was transferred to the s.

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Since no berth was available, we anchored off Southend from June 27th until July 4th. I was relieved by another Captain and went on the 12th by train to Harwich and crossed the North Sea to Hook of Holland on the m. Next came the transfer on July 14th I to the s. This was a Government ship and sailed under the H. On the first trip we left Rotterdam with passengers plus 92 in Le Havre; disembarked in Halifax and in New York, and returned with passengers for Southampton, Le Havre and Rotterdam, where we arrived on August 5th.

We mostly carried immigrants and government people. The second trip we left Rotterdam on August 8th with passengers and disembarked them all in Quebec on the 16th, embarking for Rotterdam where we arrived on the 26th. The third trip we left Rotterdam on September 1st with passengers for New York and back with only nineteen for Southampton; arriving in Rotterdam on September 21st.

The fourth trip we left Rotterdam on September 26th with passengers and embarked an additional passengers in Le Havre. We disembarked passengers in Halifax and passengers in New York, sailing back to Rotterdam with only 68 passengers, where we docked on October 17th. Then on October 25th we left Rotterdam with passengers of which about were under the age of twelve and were in the crew, via the Suez Canal and Aden bound for Freemantle, where we arrived on November 20th and disembarked passengers.

On November 25th we disembarked passengers in Melbourne and on the 28th we disembarked passengers in Sydney. We had plenty of teenagers on board so passing the equator was a big success and many of the young girls had to drink a concoction of everything and on top a raw herring to eat. The herring was appreciated by all; it is a real Dutch treat.

After that they were thrown in the swimming pool on deck. In Surabaya we embarked passengers, and later in Batavia another passengers who were mainly Indonesians. Crossing the Equator party on board the s. Groote Beer. Captain Haagmans welcomes King Neptune on board. Of course everybody was disappointed to have missed New Years Eve.

On January 22nd I was transferred to the s. This ship carried about forty in 1st Class and about in Tourist Class. From New York we made a cruise with passengers to St. The crew was and we carried twenty-three staff for shore excursions. Most of the passengers were from General Electric. Quite a crowd. On the 12th I was transferred to the m. The ss Ryndam ofhere seen approaching Rotterdam from New York.

We arrived in New York on May 4th and sailed on the 7th with passengers on a cruise to the Mediterranean and back via Lisbon, Southampton, Le Havre to Rotterdam, where we docked from May 27th until June 1st, just in time to celebrate my birthday.

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We left Rotterdam with passengers, plus an additional passengers in Le Havre, passengers in Southampton and 42 in Cobh, via Halifax to New York in total we had passengers on board and back from New York on June 14th with passengers, arriving in Rotterdam on June 23rd. I made two more New York trips, from June 29th until July 21st with about passengers round trip and from July 28th until August 18th with a little over We were back to New York on the 7th and sailed the next day with passengers back to Rotterdam, where we arrived on September 18th, And that brings me to four decades with Holland America Line and only two more years to go, because at sixty we have to retire.

From September 22nd until November11th. The next day the engines broke down and we had to be towed back to Schiedam by five big tugboats on the 17th with people on board from the builders yard and H. The ss Statendam IV returning to Rotterdam after breaking down on her technical trial trip. Tried out her top speed, the smallest circle to turn her around, how long it took to heave the anchors home again etc.

Everything worked to our satisfaction and we were back in Schiendam in the early morning of the 17th. On January 19th the ship left Schiedam and docked two hours later at our own pier in Rotterdam. We sailed her from there at 5 p. Besides guests we also had on board our Crown Princess Beatrix, who christened the ship at sea when it was taken over by the H.

Because the ship was built in a dry-dock, the christening took place at sea. The next morning we docked again in Rotterdam at 10 a. On board passengers and crew. We arrived in New York on the 16th. There was a tugboat strike going on but I was still hoping that it would be over by the time we arrived; but not so. I was lucky to arrive off the pier in Hoboken at slack water and had to moor the ship without tugboats, or dock pilot, myself.

It was not an easy job because I did not have enough practice with her to know how she would behave in handling without the help of tugs. I first brought a headline ashore with our own lifeboat and dropped one of my anchors, then I heaved her slowly alongside, not too slow to beat the incoming tide. At a. The first one being allowed to come on board was my wife.

When I came home the next day she asked me if I had read the New York Times; you know there is an article about you under the editorial. Well I did not know that that was an honor! And was my wife proud of me. After many cocktail parties and dinners with governors, mayors and other V. That evening I was on TV and later in the movies, which were shown in Holland too, and did my family enjoy seeing it.

The first cruise was from February 23rd until March 12th, the second from March 16th to March 27th, and the last one from March 29th until April 13th. On these cruises we had in the crew and a cruise staff of twenty-eight for the excursions ashore. We sailed to Rotterdam on the 16th with passengers, where we arrived on the 24th. From between May 7th and November 16th, we made nine North Atlantic voyages via Le Havre, Southampton and Cobh to New York, with mostly over passengers on board in each direction.

At the end of each voyage we were in New York for two days and in Rotterdam for three. Back in Holland the ship was dry-docked from November 19th until the 23rd and I had five days leave. After that we made the ship ready for a trip around the world of days. I hoped to get a Staff Captain with me for entertaining but had to do without it. For officers I had one Chief Officer, three 2nd officers, one 3rd officer and four 4th officers, a crew ofand a cruise staff of twenty-six.

We sailed with passengers on January 7th. Besides our regular life and motorboats, we carried two extra motorboats on top of hatch 2. Our first port of call were the Cape Verde Islands, but we ran into a terrible East South Easterly gale and not only did we miss our first port, but we also lost one of our motorboats on hatch 2, so a good start for a day long cruise.

We arrived in Dakar on Jan. Albert Schweitzer in Lambarene. The next port was Freetown and then Pointe Noire where I warned the pilot before leaving that we had very good reverse power. He thought he knew better, so trying to leave the pier, where we were docked very close between two other ships, he ordered slow instead of dead slow astern and before we knew it our last "fons haagmans biography of albert" snapped; so he gave up and I took over.

How we just missed the fons haagmans biography of albert in back of us was a wonder, we passed her along her whole length at a distance of not more then four feet. From there we sailed via Luanda, Walvisbaai and Capetown to Durban. I knew her from those years so asked her via my agent by wire, if she would sing for my passengers on our arrival, being the first ship that made a around the world cruise after the war.

And there she was with that beautiful voice. The British Government gave her a silver plated megaphone after the war that she used on this occasion. It was quite a meeting again when she came on board after all of those years. There were also overland trips from Durban by air via Kruger Park to Mombassa, where the passengers joined the ship again.

I was lucky and saw all those countries in the eleven years I sailed for the American Express Company as an escort. After Bombay we sailed via Ceylon, Penang and Singapore to Bangkok where we could not sail up the river to the city on account of our draft and size; so we anchored outside where a big coaster came alongside and could take all of our passengers to the city.

We supplied all kinds of food and drinks plus a band on board for the three and a half hour ride. During the entire cruise every night at sea, I invited ten passengers to my quarters for cocktails. That night they had dinner with me and after dinner I spent the rest of the evening with them in the Grand Lounge watching the show, dancing or what ever was going on.

So toward the end of the cruise, all of the passengers had sat at The Captains Table and everybody was happy. The world cruise ended in New York and we sailed on April 29th with passengers returning to Rotterdam, where we docked on May 7th and were in dry-dock for a shave and haircut from the 9th until the 14th. And that was the end of my career with the Holland America Line.

Not being used to the life of a landlubber I joined the American Express Company from December until October Nbr 3. March 11, at am. Kees H was a very good friends when we lived in Brazil where he often came to meet his girlfriend after she became a widow. She and her husband knew him from cruises where he was the captain. We even went to his 90th aniversary in the States in February 1, at pm.

Geachte Kapitein Schoonderbeek, Graag wil ik u ere op attenderen dat uw verhaal over Cornelis Haagmans, een kleine maar niet onbelangrijke fout staat. De broer was Antonie Catharinus van Versendaal. Hij werd op geboren in Amersfoort en bracht een groot deel van zijn leven in Ede door, net als u. Ik ben op zoek naar foto materiaal over hem.

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Er zijn echter weinig sporen van zijn familie. Uw blog is er een van. February 3, at pm. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Haagmans, Cornelis. This is the November Update: At the end of this biography, there is the regular sail and ship listing. His oldest brother passed away in Ede in and unfortunately just missed the publication of the book.

I was born in Ede as well and had made arrangements to visit him, when coming over to Ede to visit my mother. By the time I was on leave and went across with the ferry I was just too late. Other updates in bold in the original text. The first Mrs. Haagmans passed away on 14 June in the Hague. As the captain was at sea during the war most of his wages, by means of an allotment of dutch guilders, was paid directly to her by the company or by the government.

Seethe Captain Filippo biography of how that went during the occupation A few insertions in the text are in bold. This is the manuscript as published. Chapter 1. A boy goes to sea. The holds could then be used for general cargo, Chapter 2, Going through the ranks. Chapter 3: Sailing into the Second World War. Damage to Hold 1 of the ss Volendam I caused by the fons haagmans biography of albert.

The ss Volendam as troopship during the second world war After Sept. Chapter four: The final years of the war and aftermath. The ms Nieuw Amsterdam II seen here arriving in Halifax on 29 September We sailed from Hoboken on August the 24th with passengers and about children and arrived for the first time in Southampton on August 31st. Chapter 5: New ships and my own command.

Chapter six: My final years. Officer Poeldijk 30,— 07 Jan. Officer Zaandijk 30,— 01 Jul. Officer Sommelsdijk transferred at New York 06 Jun. Officer Zaandijk ,— 03 Sep. Officer ashore ,— 03 Jan. Officer Sloterdijk ,— 12 Jan. Officer Noordam ,— cancelled 21 Feb. Officer ashore ,— 15 Sep. Officer Edam Officer Edam ,— 09 Sep. Officer Blommersdijk ,— 15 Jan.

Officer Grootendijk ,— 30 Dec. Chief Officer Blommersdijk ,— 18 Nov. Officer Leerdam Officer Burgerdijk Officer Beemsterdijk Officer Bilderdijk No dated 26 Jun. Officer Rotterdam Officer Binnendijk Until 19 Jan. Officer Boschdijk Until 16 Apr. Officer Boschdijk Until 27 jun. Officer Jr. Statendam 13 Jun. Chief Officer Statendam 09 Jan. Met his American wife in this period.

Joined ship that day. A premium 8,— a month. One glass of beer on board was US 7 cents 05 Oct. Kho February 1, at pm. Captain Albert February 3, at pm. Mijn dank, Ik heb de correctie toegevoegd. Albert Reply. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Paintings by Stephen Card. Used with permission of Holland America Line.

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