An item reported the launching a day earlier at the shipyard Gusto (firm A.F. Smulders), Schiedam, Netherlands of the steel made hull of a seagoing tug. Dimensions 30 (between perpendiculars)-7,50 x 3,75 (hold) metres. Fitted out with a vertical triple expansion engine of 450 ihp and a boiler with a heating surface of 30 square metres ad 12,5 atmosphere pressure. Fitted out with a powerful centrifugal pump driven by an independent compound engine especially for salvage tasks. Speed 10 knots. Bound for a South American harbour under own power. (1)
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1. Presumably yard number 428 Albatros, built for Mar del Plata Entreprise (Entreprise Generale du Port de Mar del Plata, Le Have, France). Originally French-flagged, later Argentinean-flaggedDimensions 32,82 x 6,46 x 2,69 x 3,75 metres, Bollard pull 8 tons, Original a 750 ih[ 3-cylindre triple steam expansion engine allowing a 9 knots speed. Since 1917 in service of the Inland Water Transport Directorate, Lond, England as the Verdun and when commissioned as the HS-49, since 1921 of Crichton Thomspn*Company Limited, London, England, since 1925 of British&International Investmen Trust Limited, London, sold in 1927 to Belgium and renamed Richard owned by Sleepdienst Letzer NV, Antwerp, Belgium, during the Second World War until 1944 serving in England, chartered by the Mij. Der Brugse Zeevaartinrichtingen, Zeebrugge, Belgium and finally broken up by Fa. Van Loo, Antwerp in 1960.
