Hong Kong Harbour 1961 Dutch freighters

[@Tipi_Dan]

Very special. Top notch. Among my favorites on KZbin. I love the old freighters, and this is about the best video on KZbin that depicts them. It seems everyone has forgotten them and only wants to look at warships. These vessels were really where it's at.

[@mebeasensei]

Love these three island deep-sea conventional cargo ships. They look like real ships and not warehouses. However, I suppose the reality is that life on a container ship might have been better for workers and that reminds me that my romantic notions about ships and sea life are just romances. Still, I love the lines of these ships and all the different spaces and different atmospheres one can imagine in them. The container ship just kills it all in one brutal blow.

[@Mondo762]

I remember sailing into Hong Kong on a break-bulk freighter and working cargo onto barges while at anchor. This was in 1975-76 on a States Line freighter out of San Francisco.

[@torgeirbrandsnes1916]

The first ship you see in this clip looks like a ship from WWL of Norway. I love clips like this. Thank you!

[@dirkdekker7024]

Glad I cam across this nostalgia. I was born in HK, my father Jan Dekker worked for RIL and I still remember visiting these magnificent characters with him as a kid. Left HK in the early 60s as a 13 yr old.

[@michaelijsbrand]

See my other clips showing Dutchmen in HK in those days by searching with 'michael rogge hong kong'

[@marcel1026]

Thanks MichaelRogge for the nice pictures.

[@TheVaughan5]

So nostalgic. ALL ships were more handsome then than they are now, even the freighters had style! When I was a kid growing up in Australia I would try and get on board every ship I could - of course I wasn't always successful but imagine trying that on any ship today - not that I'd want to anyway - lol.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Thanks for your reminiscenses. Indeed traveling by freighter is not attractive anymore either. Containers being handled in less than a day in ports, instead of sometimes 5 days before and hardly any space on board to roam about.

[@michaelijsbrand]

@seesint Nice to hear of you. I'm in Holland now, but have fond memories of the time.

[@oldetimeshipfan]

nice video love the old freighters

[@michaelijsbrand]

These were 10.000 tons freighters. I came out on a Liberty WW2 ship from Rotterdam to Hong Kong in 1949. Engine failure in the Indian Ocean, but we arrived safely in one and half a month' time.

[@gragrn]

Great shot across the harbour to Kowloon, from the same spot as the opening shot from ' Enter The Dragon '. I just got back from Hong Kong today, it's so very different now but I'm glad the Clock Tower and the Peninsula Hotel are still there.

[@capt.rainer8369]

Wonderful video clip , the best one of Michael Rogges collection, at least for me. I was on a German Ship as a AB Sailor in 1966, it was the best time of my life.

[@Thermionman]

Wonderful.....wonderful video!!...............I just love those 1940's-/50's freighters. Until now only saw pictures of them in books or quick glimpses in movies maybe...... I have been aboard some steam lake freighters here in Ontario Canada, and a small 200' 1950's coaster ("Samaru" name at time in early 1980's) with bridge aft, and another coaster tanker built in 1938 "Britamette" but I have longed to go aboard one of these 400- 500 ft. package freighters from this era!Wow!

[@dirkdekker7024]

Thanks Michael, my father was on board the Tjislak when she was torpedoed by the Japanese off Ceylon. He was one of few survivors ( Chapter in book "Waves of Hate by Tony Bridgland )

[@michaelijsbrand]

What a tragedy! I also knew two people who lost their lives under similar circumstances: Beng en Cor Krook , who died when the Japanese transportship Junyo Maru was torpedoed in 1944 on the coast of Sumatra.

[@fhwolthuis]

Prachtige beelden 😃🤩

[@Thermionman]

Hong Kong looks so beautiful!Wow !

[@paulwader8023]

Gorgeous! Given the coverage of this magnitude the video collection would have inspired Zhang Zeduan to create a new "Qingming-shanghe-tu" of the "modern time" had he ever lived today.

[@ipchi4850]

Great memory

[@reigels]

Big thumbs up. Thanks for posting.

[@Gcmy]

hardly seen clear sunset on the hill nowadays.... harbour was wide spacious, clear hillsides surrounding the harbour, all gone now.

[@adrewlam]

WONDERFUL!! THX A LOT!!

[@hydehk]

clear sky and wide harbor can't see that in HK now

[@teunpronk5271]

aan die mooie tijd met de schepen van de loydd.

[@thesevenseas]

Wonderful footage! Is it possible for me to use and share this footage on my youtube page? I share footage from all kind of activities on our ocean. Cargo ships in the 1960s till now, oil rigs, fishing vessels, etc. Of course full credit will be given to the owner of the footage. Looking forward to your reply. Kind regards. Cheers.

[@michaelijsbrand]

That's OK. I took this footage in Ektachrome Commercial 16mm for a shipping company.

[@thesevenseas]

@@michaelijsbrand many thanks!

[@euvucan]

If there is a time machine, I'd like to travel to that period of time in hong kong

[@michaelijsbrand]

@kwcli - Indeed!

[@SUNNYCHTam-pp2dp]

If you an RIL man, you will feel very pitiful that this group has vanished in the world. I still miss those ones who were working both on board and ashore in Head Office in 70's such as Captain P. Maas, G. Ijtsma, Ed. de Nieuwe, Offringa, J. Gerritsma and J. Hermans ....etc. If anyone knows them, please relay my best regards to them, thank you.

[@michaelijsbrand]

I share your feelings. I knew RIL employees from 1949 till 1961.

[@yukmuilaw6799]

Hi Michael, I am a researcher from Hong Kong. May I ask you a question? When TJIWANGI or TJILILUWAH arrived hong Kong where was the parking place?

[@bazza945]

As a radio operator in New Zealand, at ZLB, I remember working those two ships in mid 1990s, in Morse code, on HF radio.

[@mlsi]

@hydehk, i totally agree. no smog!!!

[@uachutthoi6254]

Đẹp wa

[@assiebruins2545]

A-kerk type