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Friday 19 January 2018

Dutch steam tanker Scopas sold towards China according to the Dutch magazine Schip en Werf dated 12 May 1939

An item reported that the Dutch steam tanker Scopas of 5.790 gross and 3.381 net tons tonnage and built by the South Eastern Shipbuilding Company, San Pedro, California, USA in 1921 was sold by the Nederlandsch-Indische Tankstoomboot Maatschappij, The Hague, Netherlands to the firm Wheelock&Company, Shanghai, China to be used as depot ship on the Banjuansin river.(1)

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1. Call sign PRWF/PHKO, dimensions 412.0 x 53.3 x 31.0 (hold) feet, horsepower 1.800ihp and capacity 8.353 tons of 1.016 kilo.