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ELIYAHU GOLOMB

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:28 am

The first day cover features a photograph of the illegal immigration ship ELIYAHU GOLOMB docked in the port of Haifa.

Built as steel hulled cargo vessel under yard no 51 by N.V. Scheepswerf Welgelegen in Harlingen, Netherlands for the N.V. Zeevaart Mij “Groningen” in Groningen, Netherlands.
Launched as the ROTTERDAM.
Tonnage 208 gross, 161 net, dim. 32.8 x 8.62 x 10.7m.
Powered by an auxiliary 2-cyl oil engine, manufactured by D.Goedkoop. Jr., Amsterdam, 44 nhp.
Schooner rigged.
1918 Delivered to owners.

Early 1920 sold to E.L. Allain, Trinite-sur-Mer, France, not renamed, the same year already sold to Courset & Cie, Lorient, France and renamed in JOCELYN.
1923 Sold to D. Ienardi & Cie., Algiers, not renamed.
1934 Sold to Davide Zolezzi, Genoa, Italy and renamed in ALMA. The 44 nhp engine was replaced by a 6-cy Humboldt-Deutzmotor, Koln
1936 rebuilt, tonnage 304 gross, 168 net, dim. 37.9 x 7.3m.
1938 Sold to SA Armatoriale “Liburnum” Leghorn, Italy, renamed in ENRICO M.
1946 Sold to Cia Genovese di Armamento, Genoa, Italy and renamed in FENICE.
She was then chartered by the Israeli Aliyah Bet to transport Israeli emigrants from La Spezia to Israel, renamed in ELIAHU GOLOMB named after the Haganah Commander Eliahu Golomb (1893-1945).
She left La Spezia on 08 May 1946 under command of Captain Anssaldo and 339 persons bound for Israel where she arrived on 13 May.
It is one of the most well-known affairs in the illegal emigrant trade to Israel when the DOV HOZ with holocaust survivors on board was not allowed by the British Authorities to sail from La Spezia. A hunger strike was organized and published in the media around the world, which caused the British Government to let her sail together with the ELIAHU GOLOMB (see http://www.palyam.org/English/Hahapala/hf/hf_La_Spazia )
1949 Sold to C. Bonino, Genoa, she was then again named FENICE.
1952 Sold to Kesarya Marine Business Co.Ltd., Haifa, Israel and renamed BRACHA FOLD. (a source gives that she under that name two more voyages made with emigrants to Israel.)
1957 Sold to Luigi Rolandi, Savona, Italy and renamed PINELLA.
1961 Sold to Francesco Sigona, Naples, Italy. Not renamed.
1965 Sold to SpA Servizi Ausiliari, Portoferraio, Italy. Not renamed.
In the night of 29/30 November 1965 the PINELLA foundered near Bastia during heavy weather, when her cargo of cement shifted, she was on a voyage from Portoferraio to Olbia. Her crew was saved.
Israel FDC 1914.
Source: Lloyds Registers various years. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and various web-sites. http://www.palyam.org/English/Hahapala/hf/hf_La_Spazia
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