Family tree van Es » Pieter Adrianus van der Zande (1905-1942)

Personal data Pieter Adrianus van der Zande 

  • He was born on March 4, 1905 in Dreischor.
  • Profession: matroos bij de Koninklijke Marine hij was Bootsman.
  • He died on November 13, 1942 in Middellandse Zee, he was 37 years old.
    Persoonlijk verhaal : Pieter Adrianus van der Zande
    Gedurende inzet bij Operatie Torch, de geallieerde invasie van het door Vichy-Frankrijk bestuurde Frans Noord-Afrika, werd Hr. Ms. Isaac Sweers op 13-11-1942 om kwart over zes in de ochtend tot zinken gebracht op positie 37.23NB-02.12OL. Ze kreeg op 55 mijl ten noordwesten van Algiers twee torpedo voltreffers van de Duitse onderzeeboot U-431 te verduren. De eerste raakte een volle olietank terwijl de tweede direct onder de brug en de officiersmess insloeg. Door de tweede torpedo werden 13 officieren die in hun hutten bij de longroom sliepen op slag gedood. Van de officieren hebben alleen de gezagvoerder, Willem Harmsen, die op de brug stond, en een van de officieren die dienst had, de ondergang overleefd.

    Een aantal bemanningsleden kwam in zee om door brandende olie uit het getroffen schip dat zich over het wateroppervlak had verspreid. Na korte tijd kwamen ook de dieptebommen en andere munitie van de Isaac Sweers tot ontploffing. Van de 194 man diede Isaac Sweers bij haar laatste reis aan boord had vonden er 103, waaronder vijf Britten, de dood. De overlevenden werden door de bewapende Britse trawler HMS Loch Oskaig uit zee gered.

    Bron: Wikipedia via scheepsnaam.
    Bron: oorlogsslachtofferszeeland.nl

    Het wrak ligt op de bodem van de Middellandse Zee op 37.23N, 02.12E.
  • This information was last updated on March 10, 2020.

Household of Pieter Adrianus van der Zande

He is married to Alina Pieternella Antonia Minneboo.

They got married on September 16, 1930 at Vlissingen, he was 25 years old.


Second World War victim


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Birthday March 4, 1905

  • The temperature on March 4, 1905 was between 0.1 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1905: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.5 million citizens.
    • April 17 » The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
    • May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
    • June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
    • September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
    • November 12 » Norway holds a referendum resulting in popular approval of the Storting's decision to authorise the government to make the offer of the throne of the newly independent country.
    • November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.

Day of death November 13, 1942

  • The temperature on November 13, 1942 was between 0.7 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1942: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 9.0 million citizens.
    • January 25 » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
    • February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
    • March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
    • November 19 » Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
    • November 27 » World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
    • November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.


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