An item dated IJmuiden, Netherlands 19th reported that the Dutch tug trawler Ster (SCH 431) of the firm A. van der Toorn Jz. of Scheveningen, Netherlands was sold to the Sleepdienst of J.W. Nefkens and she would be used in the coastal fishery as the Ster (RO 59). She had been laid up for quite some time in the harbour of Scheveningen.