World's largest ship named after SS officer The Times of Israel


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Fri 6 Feb 2015 13.46 EST After protests by Jewish groups, a Dutch-Swiss maritime engineering company has announced it will change the name of a giant ship that had been christened after a convicted.


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THE PIETER SCHELTE (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Advertisement BERLIN - The Pieter Schelte, the biggest vessel in the world, arrived in Rotterdam on Thursday, triggering a protest to.


Offshorepionier Pieter Schelte Heerema

The name caused controversy due to Pieter Schelte Heerema's service in the Waffen-SS during WWII. Its first contract being threatened with cancellation Allseas renamed the vessel Pioneering Spirit, keeping the initials of Peter Shielte. Pieter Schelte Heerema was born in Amsterdam the 27 April 1908. Previously member of a Dutch fascist party.


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The Pieter Schelte, one of the largest ships in the world, ports in Rotterdam, January 8, 2015. (screen capture: AFP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch ship that sparked controversy because it.


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There was also the fact that Heerema caused outrage by originally naming it after his father Pieter Schelte Heerema, a brilliant shipbuilding engineer who became a Waffen-SS officer in the.


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Pieter Schelte Heerema is considered a pioneer in maritime engineering who helped open oil exploration in the North Sea. But Jewish groups in the Netherlands and Britain had called for change, saying the name was a grim reminder of Pieter Schelte Heerema's World War II role as an officer in the Nazi's Waffen SS and his subsequent war crimes.


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The ship is owned by Edward Heerema, a Dutch citizen whose father was Pieter Schelte Heerema, a renowned maritime engineer and member of the SS, who died in 1981. According to the shipbuilder, Swiss-based Allseas Group , which Edward Hareema founded in 1985, the vessel was named in honor of the late Schelte Heerema's "great achievements in.


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Edward Heerema, president of . Allseas, had steadfastly refused to listen. He had named the vessel after his father, Pieter Schelte Heerema, a convicted war criminal who served in the Waffen-SS.


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The vessel was originally named Pieter Schelte after offshore heavy lifting pioneer Pieter Schelte Heerema (1908-81), the father of Allseas' founder Edward Hereema, but the vessel was renamed.


World's largest ship named after SS officer The Times of Israel

Pieter Heerema was born on 6 June 1951 in Maracaibo (Venezuela), he is of Dutch nationality and an industrialist and amateur sailor who participates in the 2016-2017 Vendée Globe. Since 1989, he has been president of the Family Group Heerema which manufactures, among other things, drilling rigs.


Offshorepionier Pieter Schelte Heerema

Pieter Schelte Heerema, who died in 1981, was a renowned maritime engineer and a committed Nazi. According to various sources, Schelte joined the Waffen SS and was known for his antisemitic.


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The nearly 400-meter-long Pieter Schelte Heerema arrived in Europe's largest port from South Korea where it was built, ahead of starting work lifting rigs and laying pipelines this summer.


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Pieter Schelte passed away in 1981, leaving control of HMC to his sons. After working at his father's company, Edward Heerema decided to chart his own path, and he founded Allseas in 1985..


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Pieter Schelte Heerema ( Amsterdam, 27 april 1908 - Leiden, 30 september 1981) was een civiel ingenieur, Nederlands lid van de Duitse Waffen-SS, officier in de Nederlandsche SS en na de oorlog ondernemer in de offshorebusiness . Studie en begin carrière Heerema studeerde civiele techniek aan de Technische Hogeschool Delft.


Le bateau Pieter Schelte, près de 400 mètres de long, est à Rotterdam L'Express

Pioneering Spirit (formerly Pieter Schelte) is a catamaran crane vessel owned by the Switzerland -based Allseas Group designed for the single-lift installation and removal of large oil and gas platforms and the installation of record-weight pipelines.