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Saturday, 27 April 2013
British dredger Cruachan built at Dutch shipyard at Leiden, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 2 November 1914
An item reported that the dredger Cruachan was lying at IJmuiden, Netherlands waiting for a tug of the Dutch Internationale Sleepdienst Maatschappij at Rotterdam, Netherlands to be towed towards Chatham. She was built at the Dutch shipyard of the Koninklijke grofsmederij at Leiden, Netherlands for account of the British firm C.H. Cambell at Westminster. The edition dated the 6th reported her departure a day earlier with the tug Seine. Another newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 13 October 1928 published an item dated Rotterdam the 12th that the steel built dredger of 300 tons was sold to a Polish firm.