Seeking passenger lists of SS Klipfontein in December 1941

I found some information about the SS Klipfontein three manifests from 1941.

Mar-22, 1941 arriving in the Port of San Francisco, California

Jul-15, 1941 arriving in the Port of Honolulu, Hawaii

Jul-22, 1941 arriving in the Port of San Francisco, California

After that no information however if they were in route and they received information about the attack they were probably ordered to the nearest port west of Pearl Harbor which I think would be the Philippines and radio silence would be a must to prevent an attack on their ship. The ship was taken control of by the War Shipping Administration 23 Feb 1942. A link to that info and a picture of the ship is also found there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klipfontein

Dear Mr. Arechiga,

Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located a series titled Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at San Francisco, California, 5/1/1893 - 5/31/1953 (M1410) and Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Honolulu, Hawaii, 2/13/1900 - 12/30/1953 (A3422) in the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Record Group 85) that may include passenger lists for the SS Klipfontein. For access to M1410 and A3422, please contact the National Archives at Washington, DC (RDT1) via email at archives1reference@nara.gov.

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M3422 is available and searchable on Ancestry.com. There may be a fee for using Ancestry. Instead, check for access at your local library as many library systems subscribe to these sites, making them free for their patrons.  In addition, the document Genealogy: Passenger Arrival List Research Tips may be helpful.

We hope this information is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!

M1410 should also be found online on Ancestyr.com

Hi Raymond,

The Fontein Ships

http://ssmaritime.com/fontein-ships.htm

RAAF AIRMEN ON MS KLIPFONTEIN APRIL - MAY 1942

http://skynet.ie/~dan/war/klipfontein_raaf.pdf

Are any of these a relative?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.shipName=Klipfontein&f.collectionId=1923888&count=20&offset=0&m.def…

Alice Lane

Volunteer Researcher

I haven't searched your particular ship, but try the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG) website: https://immigrantships.net/index.html.

They have a good size database that's easily searchable.

Good luck!