This is the ship on which the Hennik family immigrated to Australia it has a list of the people on board and the crew signed the page. Dochter Wilhelmina also has the document her dad travelled with. They arrived 17 Feb 1959 at Fremantle and were taken by train to the Woodside Migration Camp just outside Adelaide.
With thanks to Wilhelmine van Hennik
See also:
Dutch immigrant ships to Australia
Dutch immigrant ship Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch immigrant ship Willem Ruys
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