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.
WOODS, Henry Swinton
Quartermaster, tanker Punta Gorda, Lago Shipping Co. (UK)
Saba, 17 January 1912
Caribbean Sea, 18 September 1944
Died when ship collided with Belgian tanker Ampetco II, near Cabo San Roman (Venezuela)
Lost at sea, seamans grave
Note. This victim was a survivor of the attack on – and sinking of – tanker San Nicolas on 16 February 1942.
Fireman Lago
survived the attack on merchant tanker SAN NICOLAS (LAGO) by U-502, on 16 February 1942.
Note. This survivor died later in the war, during the collision of tanker Punto Gorda on 18 September 1944.
