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Saturday, 25 August 2012
British steamship Motagua sold to the Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 23 October 1933
An item reported that the Dutch Frank Rijsdijk’s Industrieele Ondernemingen N.V. of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht bought the British steamship Motagua (ex-Emil L. Boas) of 5,995 gross and 3,189 net tons. She was build in 1912 at Newcastle for the German Hamburg Line and handed over after the First World War to the British company Elders&Fyffes Ltd. Of London. She had an accommodation for 70 first class passengers and was fitted out for the banana transport. The Dutch tug Witte Zee of the company L.Smit en Co.’s Sleepdienst was to pick her up at Talbot and tow her to Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.