An item dated Lobith 6 January reported that the same day at the shipyard De Hoop, Lobith, Netherlands the largest bulk carrier until then built in the Netherlands was launched. With a deadweight of 20.400 tons was she especially built for transporting bulk cargoes and strengthened for ore transports. She was baptized Nieuwe Tonge by Mrs. Rober-Verolme for account of the Dutch shipping company Nederlandse Vracht- en Tankvaartmaatschappij at The Hague.(1)
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1. She became on 15 March 1963 the Amsteldiep of another Dutch shipping company N.V. Reederij Amsterdam, in 1970 as the Amsteldiep owned by the Holland Bulk Transport at Amsterdam and was sold to the shipping company Navios Reinante Maritime of Liberia on 12 May 1973 and was renamed Olympian and in 1975 renamed Kefalonia Sky. In 1977 sold to be broken up which was executed a year later at Brownsville, USA.
Note
1. She became on 15 March 1963 the Amsteldiep of another Dutch shipping company N.V. Reederij Amsterdam, in 1970 as the Amsteldiep owned by the Holland Bulk Transport at Amsterdam and was sold to the shipping company Navios Reinante Maritime of Liberia on 12 May 1973 and was renamed Olympian and in 1975 renamed Kefalonia Sky. In 1977 sold to be broken up which was executed a year later at Brownsville, USA.
