Efforts to refloat steamship Finland not successful according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 23 December 1903

An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands 22nd reported that efforts of 8 tugs and the steamship Vaterland which arrived coming from New York, USA to refloat the steamship Finland were unsuccessful. The passengers 1st and 2nd class of the Finland were taken over by the Vaterland to return to Antwerp, Belgium.