Memories of the JVO - MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

This feature is going to deal with a wonderful passenger liner that has proved to be a much-loved ship, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. Personally, I remember the day so well, when I boarded her for the first time, and then sadly I watched my beloved JVO leave our shores for the very last time as she departed Wellington New Zealand on January 30, 1963, and I would never see her ever again, except in the News papers with shocking news later in that same year! She departed Sydney Australia on February 3 for her final voyage, which was unofficially to an undisclosed destination, but it turned out to be Naples.

As we will discover in this work this gracious Dutch liner enjoyed six distinctive lives and several transformations during her long and distinguished career. To this day, she is remembered for her rather long and very difficult name, a name that most people had great difficulty in pronouncing. Of course, I have not as yet officially given her full name as yet, only those three capital letters. JVO