An item dated Rotterdam 18 May reported that the Dutch shipyard Wilton-Fijenoord at Rotterdam received a order from the American Standard Oil Company of California at San Francisco to built a 12,000 tons tanker including the engines. The newspaper Banier dated the 18th added that the order was supplied via the mediation of the subsidiary company at The Hague the Nederlandsche Pacific Petroleum Maatschappij.(1)
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1. The newspaper Het Vaderland dated 6 March 1937 described her launching that day. She was built in the dry dock instead of using a slipway. What in fact was done was filling the dock with water causing her to float to the deeper mid section of the dock. After pumping out of the water until the level in- and outside the dock were similar was the large lock door lifted and the ship towed outside. While passing the sluice head was she baptized. Her main dimensions were 460’0” (between perpendiculars) x 59’0” x 34’0” and with a loading capacity of around 12.000 tons. She was to fit out with a single 20-tact 7 cylinder Fijenoord-Man diesel supplying 3600 ehp at 120 rpm. Her port of registry was The Hague
The newspaper Het volksdagblad dated 31 May 1937 reported that recently the motor tanker Nederland had her successful trials and was directly after handed over to her owner and departed towards New York 12,5 miles .
