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Friday, 27 September 2013
Dutch screw steam tug Alkmaar for sale at Amsterdam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 24 November 1868
An announcement reported the intended sale by C.A. Schröder, G.J.
Boelen, A. Roland Horst and W. Bakker Bz. on Monday 28 December at 18.00 o’clock
in the Nieuwe Stads Herberg at the IJ, Amsterdam
of the iron-built decked screw steam tug Alkmaar
which served on the Noord-Hollands Kanaal. She was lying along the shipyard het
Witte Kruis, Kleine Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam.
Dimensions 16,90 x 3,54 x 1,71 (hold) metres and a measurement of 34 tonnes.
Her pair of 50hp directly working high pressure engines were manufactured in
the factory of Regnier Poncelet at Luik,
Belgium.