An item dated Antwerp the 13th reported that the Dutch steam tanker La Flandre which had been involved in an collision was that day dry docked to be inspected and repaired.(1)
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1. Callsign PHVB. In 1888 built by the shipyard of Sir W.W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell&Co. at Newcastle, England with yardnumber 539 for account of H.F. Swan, Newcastle. Became in 1889 property of Frederic Speth&Co. of Antwerp, Belgium and since 1896 Netherlands-flagged (N.V. American Petroleum Company of Rotterdam, the predessor of ESSO). While underway from New York, USA towards Rotterdam, Netherlands hit she on 21 February 1916 off the Galloper Bank a mine laid by the German submarine UC 5 and sunk.
