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Friday, 27 September 2013

Dutch screw steam tug Amsterdam 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 Amsterdam which served on the Noord-Hollands Kanaal. She was lying along the shipyard het Witte Kruis, Kleine Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam. Dimensions 17,10 x 3,4 x 1,90 (hold) metres and a measurement of 29 tonnes. Her pair of 50hp directly working high pressure engines were manufactured in the factory of Regnier Poncelet at Luik, Belgium.