Dutch paddle steam tug Union I for sale according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 4 April 1873

An announcement reported the intended sale on a public auction on Monday 21 April 1873 in the Sociëteit De Vergenoeing, Middelburg, Netherlands at 13.00 o’clock of the Dutch iron paddle steam tug Union I, built by Jonathan Robson, Gateshead, England in 1856. Measured according to measurement letter 128 tons and as dimensions 32,35 (prow) x 6,20 x 2,89 (hold) metres. Lying in the Marinedok at Vlissingen, Netherlands, excellent maintained with double 80hp engines, tubular boiler and completer inventory. For the bunkered coal on board bunkers was to be paid separately.(1)

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1. Of the Stoomsleepdienst op de Westerschelde managed by Spoors en Sprenger, Middelburg.