Michel Wilhelm Nuboer (1916-1980) left Paramaribo in 1941/42 as an Assistant in the engine’s department of a freight ship bound to Curaçao during the Second World War. The ship may have likely been carrying aluminum aggregates for making fighter planes in the U.S. as cargo. Upon arrival, he probably was a gunner first, but then became a Medical Assistant stationed on Bonaire. During the 1960s - 1974+ he was a First Aid Medical Trainer in the Volunteer Corps Curaçao (VKC). On August 21st , 1969, Michel Wilhelm Nuboer received the Order of Orange-Nassau (no. 122) from Her Majesty the Queen.
HERNANDEZ, Leon Papa
Sailor, s.s. Mariana, Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines (USA)
Curaçao, 28 July 1894
Atlantic Ocean, 5 March 1942
Died when ship was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-126, North of the Turks and Caicos islands
Lost at sea, seamans grave
Note: Decorated with the U.S. Mariner’s Medal.