An item reported that the same morning in the North Sea the steamship Otis Tetrax was torpedoed. She was apparently a well known ship in Rotterdam, known as the Goole-boat with as cargadors the firm Hudig&Pieters of Rotterdam and now required by the British cabinet. The fate of the crew was at that moment unknown. (1)
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1. The website http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10997 supplies more details dealing with this collier built in 1916 at the shipyard Scheepswerf J. Meijer at Zaltbommel for Hudig&Pieters Algemeene Scheepvaart Maatschappij NV of Rotterdam. In 1917 was she property of E.P. Atkinson&Sons Ouse Steamship Company-Eboer Steamship Company of Goole, England. She was fitted out with a steam triple expansion built by the shipyard and engine factory Burgerhout at Roterdam and which together with two boilers supplied 186 nhp driven one screw. When she was torpedoed she was armed with 1-12 pdr gun placed on the stern. Building np. 427. With a Gross tonnage of 998 tons were her dimensions 65,5 x 9,8 x 4,4 metres. Her crew numbered 18 men.
The Zalt-Bommelsche Courant dated 13 October 1917 reported that she was not required but voluntarily offered to be used as collier and called her Otis Tetroax of the firm Hudig&Pieters. Like the other ships she was to be painted black while the accompanying tug Wodan was to be painted white. The freight cost were ƒ 15,00 for each ton withthe cabinet paying the assurance.
Lijst van de Nederlandsche en Nederlands-Indische schepen aan welke onderscheidingsseinen zijn verleend uit het Internationaal Seinboek. Published 1917. Call sign PNMV. Homeport Rotterdam. Net cargo capacity 1.236,09 cubic metres or 436.34 tons of 2.83 cubic metres and gross cargo capacity if 2820,17 cubic metres or 995,52 tons of 2,83 cubic metres.
