Haicke Janssen

Haicke Petrus Marinus Janssen was born in 1885 in Kampen, Netherlands. He was a bookkeeper in Amsterdam before he became a sailor. In 1913, he was working on the Belgian Red Star Line’s SS Kroonland as a lookout man when she came to the rescue of the Uranium Steamship Company’s SS Volturno after that ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. The United States and United Kingdom awarded him and other seamen involved a medal for rescuing the Volturno’s passengers and crew.

Haicke Janssen

Haicke Petrus Marinus Janssen was born in 1885 in Kampen, Netherlands. He was a bookkeeper in Amsterdam before he became a sailor. In 1913, he was working on the Belgian Red Star Line’s SS Kroonland as a lookout man when she came to the rescue of the Uranium Steamship Company’s SS Volturno after that ship caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean. The United States and United Kingdom awarded him and other seamen involved a medal for rescuing the Volturno’s passengers and crew.