An item reported that the Saturday before at the German Germania yard at Kiel the second petroleum tanker for the Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft of Hamburg was launched. The Den Haag was one of the four sister ships and had a loading capacity of 12,000 tons and fitted out with two engines. She was to be Dutch-flagged.(1)
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1. De Nederlandse koopvaardijvloot 1930. Mentioned as owner the American Petroleum Company of The Hague with a measurement of 8,971 gross and 5,036 net tons of 2,83 cubic metres, a loading capacity included bunker capacity of11,950 tons of 1,016 kg and a bunker capacity of 560 tons of 1,016 kg. Call sign NMBF and radio sign PDOR. 2-6 cylinder diesel engines.
