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Monday 13 January 2014

British crane ship Lutje Horn sold to the Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Het vrije volk dated 26 August 1950

An item reported that the British Admiralty sold her crane ship Lutje Horn via the shipbrokers firm Muller en Reitsma N.V. at Rotterdam to a Dutch company. The Dutch tug Atlantis towed her from South Wales to Rotterdam. The vessel fitted out with 400 hp diesel engines and a length of around 40 metres was to used to salvage planes crashed into the sea.