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Saturday 24 October 2015

Dutch navy steam supply vessel Y8262 (1915) 1961-1993


Laid down at the shipyard of J.&A. van der Schuyt, Papendrecht, Netherlands as tug for account of the Russian government in December 1915, launched in August 2016, never delivered as a result of lacking payments due to the Russian revolution and offered for sale by the shipyard, sold to N.V. Bureau Wijsmuller, The Hague, Netherlands on 6 May 1917, trials as the Pauline on 12July 1917, laid up in July 1917 at Papendrecht and later at Rotterdam, Netherlands, sold to the Royal Netherlands Navy by broker Jacq. Pierot and commissioned in the Royal Netherlands Navy on 1 October 1918, served as the minesweeper Mijnenveger 4, later as M.4. Scuttled by her own crew on 14 May 1940, salvaged by the German forces on 22 July 1940, commissioned in German service as the ZRD47 and later as the BSIX (Bergungsschiffeverband), discovered at the navy yard at Den Helder, Netherlands and returned to the navy in 1945, commissioned as RS 23 with homeport Ijmuiden, Netherlands, A 847 in 1950, stationed at Vlissingen, Netherlands to be used for training sailors, decommissioned on 8 May 1952 becoming part of the reserve, decommissioned as A 847 on 14 December 1952, Y 8262 since 1956, decommissioned in 1961, converted into a steam supply vessel, rebuilt to be used for cleaning tanks with removal of engines, accommodation , coal bunkers, mast bridge and lengthened in 1965, fitted out with a huge tank for storage of polluted water and oil, handed over to the Dominions on 10 January 1992 and sold in February 1993. Nowadays used as a floating theatre ship.