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Monday, 17 December 2012

Dutch shipyard Bodewes at Maartenshoek, Netherlands building Indonesian patrol vessels according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 18 February 1950

An item reported the successful launching at the Dutch shipyard Bodewes Scheepvaart Maatschappij at Maartenshoek of the second of two patrol vessels built for the Indonesian Central [Federal] Ships Service. She was named Attat. The newspaper Nieuwsblad van het Noorden dated 16 February confirmed the launching that same afternoon adding that she was built under special supervision and fitted out with a 450hp Enterprise engine.