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Sunday, 1 September 2013

Steam tanker Bremerhaven ordered to go to Amsterdam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 10 February 1893

An item dated Maassluis, Netherlands reported that the steam tanker Bremerhaven coming from New York an anchored of the Nieuwe Waterweg (main entrance for Rotterdam) was ordered to go to Amsterdam for unloading her cargo.(1)

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1. Callsign NHGM. Built in 1890 at the shipyard of Russell&Co. Greenock England with yardnumber 213 for account of the S.S. Bremerhaven &Co. Ltd. (=Hermann, Stursberg&Co.) at New York, USA. Since 1891 Netherlands-flagged (N.V. American Petroleum Company of Rotterdam, the predecessor of ESSO). During a heavy weather while underway from Philadelphia towards Antwerp sunk after she started leaking on 5 February 1902. Her crew was saved by the British steamship Angelina de Larringa.