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Tuesday 17 February 2015

Dutch tug Zuidholland collided with the steamboat Telegraaf III off the Steenbergsche Vliet, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Schiedamsche Courant dated 27 July 1866

An item dated Schiedam, Netherlands 26th reported the collision between the Dutch steamboat Telegraaf III a day earlier at 10.30 o’clock coming from Antwerp, Belgium bound for Rotterdam, Netherlands off Steenbergsche Vliet, Netherlands with the Dutch tug Zuidholland, the latter towing the bark Doelwijk. The Telegraaf III was heavily leaking and deliberately grounded. Her passengers were taken over by the Doelwijk.