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Sunday, 22 March 2020

Dutch coal transport Prosper built at Schiedam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Schiedamsche Courant dated 29 April 1906

An item reported that a day earlier around 17.30 o’clock at the shipyard Gusto (firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands the no. 313 a coal transport was launched built for Dutch account. Dimensions 42,4 x 10 x 5,25 (hold) metres, cargo capacity 700 tons, 2x1100 ihp engines and a boiler with a heating surface of 80 square metres with 8 atmosphere. Lightning was electric.(1)

Note
1. This must be the Prosper built for account of the S.H.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands.