Dutch tugs with tow underway towards Russia according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsch nieuwsblad dated 24 July 1940

An item reported the departure on the day before at 16.30 o’clock of the Dutch tugs Avanti and Sleepboot 15 with the sheerleg Habor 2 and the tug Sleepboot 16 with the crane no. 3 towards Leningrad, Russia.