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Monday, 27 January 2014

Dutch sleepboot Dockyard V 1940-

Inner harbour of Rotterdam, Netherlands 12 January 2014

Netherlands-flagged. ENI no. 2309762. Lid down at the shipyard of the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij on 11 December 1940 with yard umber 227. Sunk during an Allied aircraft attack in 1942. Salvaged in 1946, repaired and finished and commissioned on 7 May 1947 by the RDM as Dockyard V. Not earlier commissioned as in 1978 and handed over to the Maritiem Museum Prins Hendrik, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Displacement 245 tons and as dimensions 25,10 x 6,24 x 2,90 metres.