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SS Rooseboom
SS ''Rooseboom'' was a 1,035 ton Dutch steam ship owned by KPM (Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij or Royal Packet Navigation Co. of the Netherlands East Indies) built in 1926 by Rijkee & Co of Rotterdam.
==The sinking==
(詳細はBattle of Singaporeを参照)
In February 1942 British Malaya and Singapore had surrendered to the Japanese Army. Over 100,000 British and Empire military personnel had become prisoners as well as thousands of civilians. A few thousand more were escaping to the nearby Netherlands East Indies and from there to Australia, Ceylon or India in any ship that could be found. Many of these ships were lost to Japanese attacks among the islands scattered around Sumatra and Java while attempting to escape. ''Rooseboom'' under Captain Marinus Cornelis Anthonie Boon, was taking around 500 passengers (mainly British military personnel and civilians) from Padang to Colombo in Ceylon.
On 1 March 1942 at 11:35pm ''Rooseboom'' was steaming west of Sumatra when it was spotted by the Japanese submarine ''I-59'' (which was later re designated ''I-159'') under the command of Lieutenant Yoshimatsu and torpedoed. ''Rooseboom'' capsized and sank rapidly leaving one life boat (designed to hold 28) and 135 people in the water. Eighty people were in the lifeboat the rest clung to flotsam or floated in the sea. Two of these survivors were picked up nine days later by the Dutch freighter ''Palopo''. Until the end of the Second World War they were assumed to be the only survivors.〔
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