Dutch steam trawler Hercules not to be broken up but again active in the fishery according to the Dutch magazine Schip en Werf dated 1 September 1939

An item reported that the Dutch steam trawler Hercules of the Visscherij Onderneming De Vem, Ijmsuiden, Netherlands was decommissioned and probably to be sold for breaking up. The edition dated 2 February 1940 hwoever reported that she was not broken up by undergone major repairs at a shipyard at Amsterdam, Netherlands and to be used on short notice for the North Sea fishery again with as homeport Ijmuiden