An item reported that last Sunday [morning] the German-flagged steam tanker Minister Maybach (1) arrived coming from Philadelphia where she departed the 13th of May loaded with around 24.000 kegs of petroleum. She was the first tanker arriving there with a cargo for Monchy&Co. pakhuismeesters. The petroleum was to be stored for the first time in the reservoir made by the Belgian firm Cockerill at Seraing. Next step was to pump the petroleum into inland vessels fitted out with tanks of into tank wagons with as destination Germany.(1) The edition dated Tuesday 22 July published an item dated Flushing the 21st reported her arrival in Sunday morning coming with a cargo of petroleum coming from New York.Her captain was B. Schierhorst.
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1. Another newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated the 4th confirmed this item. In June 1887 launched at the shipyard of Sir W.G. Armstrong, Mitchell&Co. Low Walker with yardnumber 501 and in August delivered to Wilhelm A. Riedemann and Albert Nic. Schütte&Sohn of Geestemünde, both owning 50% of the shares an registered on 21 September. On 12 December 1890 she was transferred to the Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft. On 25 January 1899 left she New York bound for Antwerp, Belgium and Hamburg, Germany but disappeared underway.
