In 1875 was the shipyard Kon.Mij. De Schelde founded at Vlissingen on the location of the former navy yard. The slips, a small dry dock and some of the old buildings were still available. There was a new building built for the machine plant including the production of boilers. Tools were bought and a pontoon was built for heavy transport. Until now was this pontoon strangely enough in fact unknown in the history books.A few weeks ago was a drawing discovered of what seemed to be a lighter. The first impression was that this was a new drawing representing the keellighter built for the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1877-1878. However using the order administration it became clear that this was a heavy transport pontoon built for and by the shipyard with yard number 1. Strangely enough was later the ‘1’ replaced by a ‘0’ and the fishery vessel De Zeeuw with yard number ‘2’ became known as the yard number 1. Secondly the drawing of the pontoon disappeared for decades until recently. With the dimensions 12 x 10 x 1 (hold) metres was she almost square-built able to transport maximum 60 tons. Building costs ƒ 5.846,88 including ƒ 1.257,90 for wages, for smithery ƒ 323,21 and materials ƒ 3.917,93.
