An item reported that professor H. Cop of the Polytechnische School, Delft, Netherlands designed a steam herring lugger to prove that such a vessel could use the harbour especially by the engineers Bekaar, De Bruin en Lindo designed for so-called bomschuiten. The permanent commission of the shipping companies at Scheveningen, Netherlands asked him to design a logger with a draught of just 2,26 metres and which could be even decreased to 2,12 metres by pumping out the waterballast of circa 20 tons. The dimensions were 25,50 (between perpendiculars)-26,60 (loadline)-28,30 x 7,40 (maximum outside trusses) x 2,94 (hold keel upper side keel below deck and sides) x 2,12 draught loaded in sea water with a displacement of 215 without 20 tons water ballast)-2,26 (draught loaded in sea water with a displacement of 215 with 20 tons water ballast) metres. The design was even larger as the the luggers at that moment used, which had a maximum length of 23 metres. Able to load 450 tons herring excluded the equipment for the fishery
