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Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Dutch tug Gebroeders Bodewes built at Martenshoek, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 28 December 1915

An item dated Martenshoek 23 December reported that at the shipyard N.V. Scheepswerven v/h Gebr. G.H. Bodewes at Martenshoek, Netherlands the steel-built seagoing tug Gebroeders Bodewes 4 was launched. The Arnhemsche Stoomhelling Mij at Arnhem was to fit her out on short notice with a boiler and a 450 ihp engine. In the mean tome were the keels laid down for the tugs Gebroeders Bodewes 5 and 6 for which the 500 ihp engines would be manufactured by the Machinefabriek Fulton at Martenshoek, Netherlands.