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Saturday 7 March 2015

Lighter Patriottisme lost when towed by tug Sun III from Netherlands towards England according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 21 September 1918

An item dated Maassluis, Netherlands 5th reported that the lighter Patriottisme which left that same morning the Nieuwe Waterweg, Netherlands together with the tug Sun III (1) towards London, England broke at sea into two parts. Bothe parts were sunk by a destroyers. The tug returned.(1)

Note
1. Similar to the at the shipyard Earles&Co. Limited, Hull, England in 1909 built tug between August 1939 and August 1945 in service of the Royal navy? She seems to be renamed Succour between 1915 and 1919.