In February 1959 asked the Dutch firm Centraal Scheepsbouw Bureau at Rotterdam, Netherlands the Dutch .V. Nederlandsche Vereenigde Scheepsbouw Bureaux (NEVESBU) at The Hague, Netherlands to assist her in obtaining an order from the Tunisian government.(1) The first firm cooperating with the shipyard Schouten at Muiden, Netherlands an bid to Tunisia for building patrol vessels with a length of 35 metres, armed with 2cm machineguns and fitted out with the Dutch made RUB Werkspoor engines. Apparently it was a similar design to the Pakistan project in 1953 and for which Werkspoor offered to built the engines. The Centraal Scheepsbouw Bureau had a contact person in Tunisia and believed to have a well chance to obtain the order which was mainly to be financed by the USA. De Kon.Mij. De Schelde were not unwilling the give the necessary support if the other NEVESBU-members also agreed under the condition that the engines were to be ordered at the NEVESBU-members.(2)
Notes
1. As far as known is this order not supplied.
2. Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM) at Rotterdam, Kon.Mij. De Schelde (K.M.S.) at Vlissingen, Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij (N.D.S.M.) at Amsterdam, Wilton-Fijnenoord at Schiedam and Werkspoor N.V. at Amsterdam.
Source
Archive Kon.Mij. De Schelde (Municipality Archive of Vlissingen, Netherlands) inventory number 214.1717.
