An item reported that the Dutch shipyard Boele’s scheepswerven en machinefabrieken NV at Bolnes received an order of the ir.P.S. Heerema’s NV Intrepid Shipping Co. to convert the super tanker Veedol (1) into worlds largest crane ship with a lift capacity of 2.000 tons. She was to be delivered before August 1973. The item further more reported that this was the third crane ship within a few years to be built by this yard. The edition dated 6 April 1974 reported that the former tanker with a deadweight of 50.000 tons was to be commissioned the same month. Costs 65.000.000 Dutch guilders. The WS Thor fitted out with an IHC-2000 swiveling crane was on long term charter used by a British North Sea firm who was going to use her in June on the Fortes Field of British Petroleum in the North Sea. Accommodation for 180 men.
Note
1. The former tanker Veedol; built in 1955 at the shipyard of Mitsubishi Zosen at Nagasaki with yard number 1455 for Tide Water Tanks, Monrovia, Liberia. The conversion by Boele’s started begin 1973, completed in April 1974 and finally broken up in 1982 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Dimensions after her conversion were 169,30 x 29,3 x 8m25 metres. IMO no. 5377408. Fitted out with a Gusto made crane. During the period that Heerema cooperated with MacDermott was she named Heeremac DB52.
