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Sunday 22 September 2019

Dutch tug Titan stopped her fishing activities according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Vlaardingsche courant dated 14 March 1917

Archive Kon. Mij. De Schlde Machinefabriek-Ketelmakerij 506.188

An item reported that the Dutch tug Titan of the towing company Zur Mühlen&Co.  at Amsterdam, Netherlands since some time converted into and used as steam trawler stopped with fishing while she was hired by the Dutch government.(1)

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1. Launched by Scheepswerf NV v.h Rijkee&Co. Rotterdam, Netherlands on 13 August 1894, and completed by Kon. Mij. De Schelde, Vlissingen, Netherlands, commissioned on 7 October 1894 sold to the Internationale Sleepdienst Maatschappij and renamed Hudson in October 1919 and he same month sold to Bureau Wijsmuller and renamed Drente and stranded on 19 October 1935 off Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands and broken up there. With a coal bunker capacity of 280 ton was her range 4.000 miles. On 28 September 1912 new boilers nrs. 693-694 ordered by the De Schelde, she arrived on 14 April 193, departed on 17 May 1913. In 1894 she was fitted out with engine number 144 and boiler numbers 210-211.