An item reported that the shipyard Scheepswerf en Machinefabriek Welgelegen te Harlingen was to start with the converting of a British navy corvette (1) into a modern seagoing tug for the Dutch shipping company Scheepvaart Maatschappij G. Doeksen en Zoon te Terschelling. The corvette was to be towed from a port in Scotland to Harlingen by the Dutch tug Holland owned by the firm Doeksen.
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1. Op the website www.dutchfleet.net is a topic (13848) dealing with this so-called corvette. She was build as the Orsay (M450) in 1945 at the shipyard Cochraine&Sons at Selby as part of the Dan Layer Isles-class and mainly stationed at the St. Davis Harbour. Begin 1958 decommissioned and sold to Doeksen and towed by the Holland on 11 March 1958 to Harlingen. The conversion into a tug was not successful and she was sold in 1962 to be broken up at Nieuw Lekkerland. However she was not broken up but towed to Livorno and there used as the trawler Antilope until she was broken up on 20 February 1975 at the Cantari Navali Palmaric, La Spezia, Italy. In an item dealing with the Isles-class trawlers (!) on the website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_class_trawler is said that she was launched in January 1945 and in 1949 still in service. The website http://www.rnpatrolservice.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=747 supplied different details dealing with this ship. She was a danbuoy laying trawler of which the building was ordered on 16 April 1943 and launched on 1 January 1945, rebuilt in 1956 as a tank cleaning vessel and sold on 3 September 1957 a year later.
