An item reported that the Dutch torpedo boat large model Dempo (1) commanded by lieutenant 2nd class Hoog departed the same evening at 18.45 o’clock from Hellevoetsluis via the North Sea towards Willemsoord. She was ordered by a telegram to exchange her Brotherhood device for electric diver force for the defected one of the Empong.
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1. On stocks at the Ned. Stoomboot Maatschappij shipyard Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1886 with yard number 137, launched on Saturday 16 July 1887, trial on 9 September off Texel achieving a speed of 22 miles and decommissioned on 1 November 1910. Displacement 83 tons and as dimensions 38,37 x 3,96 x 2.07 metres. Her compound steam engine of horsepower of 760 ihp allowed a speed of 20,55 miles. Her crew numbered 16 men. The armament consisted of 2-3,7cm guns, 1 torpedo gun and 2 torpedo tubes. Building costs ƒ 140.000,-.
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1. On stocks at the Ned. Stoomboot Maatschappij shipyard Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1886 with yard number 137, launched on Saturday 16 July 1887, trial on 9 September off Texel achieving a speed of 22 miles and decommissioned on 1 November 1910. Displacement 83 tons and as dimensions 38,37 x 3,96 x 2.07 metres. Her compound steam engine of horsepower of 760 ihp allowed a speed of 20,55 miles. Her crew numbered 16 men. The armament consisted of 2-3,7cm guns, 1 torpedo gun and 2 torpedo tubes. Building costs ƒ 140.000,-.
