German screw steam tug Johann Wagner 2 built at Dordrecht, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper De Dordrechtse Courant dated 22 April 1907

An item dated 20 April reported that immediately after the launching of the German screw steam tug Ludwig the keel was to be laid down of at the shipyard of Huiskens&van Dijk, Dordrecht, Netherlands of a screw steam tug for account of Johann Wagner, Castel am Rhein. The edition dated 29 July reported the launching on the same day of the 330 ihp strong Johann Wagner 2. Engine and boiler manufactured by the shipyard. Mainly to be used for towing rafts on the upper Rhine.(1)

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1. W.A.A. Suykerbuyk. Huiskens&Van Dijk, Lekko January 1985, dimensions 29,15 x 6,00 x 1,80 metres, sold early 1920 sold to H. Rennings, Duisburg-Ruhrort, Germany and renamed Franz, around 1930 purchased by N.V. Casper, director H. Schless, Dordrecht keeping her name, after spring 1958 dismantled en converted into a hulk for the bunker station of Schless at Dordrecht and in 1985 still in existence at the bunkerstation of Zwaans at Dordrecht.