German company Bugsier ordered building tugs at Bremerhaven according to the Dutch newspaper Het vrije volk dated 25 February 1967

An item reported that the German tugs and salvaging company Bugsier of Hamburg ordered the building of a 16.000 hp tug at a shipyard at Bremerhaven. The twin Deutz diesel engines allowed the tug with a length of almost 84 metres a speed of nearly 40 kilometres. At that moment was the American tug Alice L. Moran with her 9.600 hp world’s strongest tug, followed by the Dutch tugs Witte Zee and Zwarte Zee of L. Smit&Co. each with 9.000 hp.