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Thursday, 15 August 2013

British government buying tugs for anti submarine warfare according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Tilburgsche Courant dated 21 August 1938

An item reported that the British government bought six tugs to be used for the anti submarine warfare. Originally was the intention to name the ships after saints like St. Alexandra, St. Gatianus and St. Gerontius. While the regulations of the Admiralty the use of naming ships after saints not admitted were the tugs now named after stones.