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.
VRIES, Johannes de
1st Mate, tanker Lucrecia, Petroleum Maatschappij La Corona
Groningen (Netherlands), 9 April 1900
Atlantic Ocean, 8 July 1940
Injured when ship was torpedoed and sunk on 7 July by German submarine U-34, West of Lands End (UK). Died of his wounds one day later in the lifeboat.
Buried at sea, seamans grave.
