An item reported that on the Saturday evening before sports competitions were organized to entertain the crew of the French cruiser Lamotte Piquet. (1)Dutch naval sailors won with 8:1 the water polo competition. Further more were 3 boxing matches, 2 as demonstrations, the third one however a real match in which a French sailor in the second round was K.O. by the navy boxer Dreesen.(2)
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1. Part of the Duguay-Trouin class light cruisers consisting of the Duguay-Trouin, Lamotte-Picguet and Primauget, succeeded by the Jeanne d’Arc. Laid down at the Arsenal de Lorient, France on 17 January 1923, launched on 21 March 1924, commissioned on 5 March 1927, stationed in the Far East (French Indochina) since 1933, participated in defeating a Thai squadron on 14 January 1941, training hulk in October 1941, disarmed in November 1941 and sunk by American aircraft in the so-called South China Sea Raid in the harbour of Saigon on 12 January 1945. Broken up after the Second World War.
2. Dutch navy light weight champion Leonard Dreesen?
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