An item dated Rotterdam 27 November reported that the steamship Zijldijk was renamed Hoflaan.(1)
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1. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated the 28th confirmed this renaming. She was the former Runo of 4,190 gross and 2,621 net tons build in 1900 by the shipyard of J.Laing&Sons Ltd. at Sunderland. Via mediation of Reitsma en Co’s Scheepsmakelaarskantoor sold by the Holland-Amerika-Lijn to the a new shipping company [at Rotterdam] of which the name was not mentioned. The website http://www.arendnet.com/h45.htm supplies more details. The new owner was the NV Stoomschip Eenambt at Rotterdam. Broken up between 1930 and 1931 at the scrape yard of the N.V. Frank Rijsdijk’s Industriële Ondernemingen at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. The H.A.L. bought her in 1909 from the Abe Steam Navigation Company of Sunderland. Lijst van de Nederlandsche en Nederlands-Indische schepen aan welke onderscheidingsseinen zijn verleend uit het Internationaal Seinboek. Amsterdam, 1917. Call sign QDWC, homeport Rotterdam, net capacity 7424,37 cubic metres or 2620,80 tons of 2,83 cubic metres and gross capacity 11868,38 cubic metres or 4189,54 tons of 2,83 cubic metres.
