An item reported that Dutch shipyards would built 3 cargo vessels ice strengthened with a capacity of 5.000 ton and a number of tankers and reefers for frozen fish for account of the Soviet Union. The latter to be delivered within 3-5 years.(1) Further more was within 5 year a completely fitted out (including cooling machines) whaling mother ship of 22.500 tons and a whale hunter to be delivered.
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1. The Kon. Mij. De Schelde delivered several ships in the fifties and sixties starting with the ice strengthened cargo ships Lena, Yenisei and the Ob launched in 1954.
