An announcement reported the intended sale by the executive board of the town Leeuwarden, Netherlands on a public auction on Wednesday 3 August 11.130 o’clock of the Dutch steam tug Nautilus of 13 ton and fitted out with 1-14hp engine and assured until 31 December for ƒ 13.000. Originally built as a pleasure craft on the Wadden [mudflats] was she for some years with success used as a tug but now again for some time as a pleasure craft on the Frisian lakes.