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Friday, 20 December 2013

Dutch shipyard De Vries Lentsch Jr, Amsterdam built Burmanian patrol vessels and Dutch minesweepers according to the Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 27 September 1957

An item reported that the Dutch shipyard De Vries Lentsch Jr at the Grasweg, Amsterdam existed forty years and in the meantime was specialized in building luxury yachts. They were now building five minesweepers for the Royal Netherlands Navy and built in the past 79 river patrol vessels for Burma within three years and of the last vessel in 1956 was delivered. During the transport over sea towards Burma was one vessel lost.