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Thursday 16 April 2015

Dutch steam pilot boat No. 10 salvaged German submarine S 313 on North Sea according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf dated 1 April 1919

An item dated Hoek van Holland, Netherlands 31 March reported that the Dutch steam pilot boat No. 10 was underway towards the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands while towing a submarine. It was the German submarine S 313 found at the North Sea and which was brand new and yet not completed. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad of the same date added that she was on the afternoon of the 3rd near the Maas light ship and indeed a brand new unfinished submarine. She was towed by the pilot boat on the Nieuwe Waterweg within the quays and there picked up by the research vessel Usum and tug Iris and towed into the Berghaven, Hoek van Holland.