Captain Lourus Almekinders (a)

Name:  Almekinders Lourus

Born:   19 April 1928

Captain Louris Almekinders was a HAL captain in 1960s/ 1970’s. Most of his sailing information is kept by the HAL pension fund and thus not available.

Waiting for information to be found. What I have is listed here, Anyone who can help please contact me on Captalbert1@aol.com

Here we have a photo of him as Master of the ss Volendam during a North Cape cruise in 1973.

Group Staff photo from left to right: Purser Hein Hogervorst (Father was HAL captain) Piet van Jaarsveld (Food manager), Dirk van Beek (Asst. Housekeeper, Unknown (Cruise Director ??), Unknown (Ships Hostess), Captain Lourus Almekinders (Master ss Volendam), unknown (Hotelmanager), J. Brands (Chief Engineer), Aad Hess (Chief Officer), unknown (Doctor) (a)

Career sailing list:

Date:                    Function:                            Ship:                           Remarks

No information yet from early days. Waiting for seamans book

xx.xxx.xxxx          Chief officer                      Statendam             Voy. 9 & 10

02 Mar. 1956      Chief Officer                      Kinderdyk            Until– 15 Apr. 1956 (maiden voyage)

11 Oct.  1956      Chief officer                      Gaasterdijk           Until  31 Dec. 1956 ( maiden voyage)

GAP

12 Feb. 1961       Chief Officer                      Gaasterdijk         Voy. 3, 4

GAP

07 Jul. 1962         Chief Officer                      Grebbedijk          Trial trip

21 Jul.1962          Chief Officer                      Kerkedijk               Voy.  1, 2, 3,  4

25 Jul. 1962         Chief Officer                      Grebbedijk          Voy 1

21 Nov. 1962      Chief Officer                      Grebbedijk          Into 1963

21 Feb. 1963       Chief Officer                      Grebbedijk

25 May. 1963     Chief Officer                       Grebbedijk

12 Dec. 1963      Chief Officer                      Gorredijk

24 Jan. 1964       Chief Officer                      Gorredijk               Rdam – NOP until June

GAP

08 Oct   1964      Chief Officer                      Kamperdijk         Until 03 Dec.

1965 – 1967         Chief Officer                      Moerdyk  (b)  Involved in the newbuilt period.

Then promotion to Captain.

GAP.

30 Jul. 69             Chief Officer                      Ryndam            On board at S’ton

27 Sep. 69           Chief officer                      Ryndam               On board 27 Sep. 1969

28 Oct. 69 (*)      Chief Officer                      Ryndam            On board              30 mar 1970 at Bombay

29 Sep. 1970       Chief Officer                      Ryndam

28 Oct. 1970       Chief Officer                      Ryndam

GAP

01. Sep.1973 Captain                               Veendam

xx. xxx 1973    Captain                              Volendam

xx. Mar. 1975   Chief Officer                   Prinsendam

 

Sources:

(a) Captain alberts Ships database and photo collection

(b) Mr. Leen Bosma (Ex HAL Deck officer)

Last updated 06 May  2025