• Flotta Lauro Lines (category Italian companies established in 1947)
    destroyed by a galley fire during a Caribbean cruise in March 1979. The Willem Ruys (launched in 1946) was purchased Flotta Lauro in 1964 and re-named after...
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    close cooperation with Willem Ruys J.D. zn. (1809–1889) in the late 1830s. Fop built a long line of sailing ships for Willem Ruys, who managed them for...
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