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Thursday 1 August 2013

British steamship Oroya towed by Dutch tug Roode Zee towards Italy according to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf dated 26 January 1939

An item dated Plymouth the 25th reported the arrival of the Dutch tug Roode Zee on the 24th. She was ordered to tow the steamship Oroya to Genoa, Italy. The Oroya built in 1923 wit a gross register tonnage of 12.257 tons was sold to Italy to be broken up. She had been property of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company at Liverpool.