An item reported that on yesterday afternoon on board of the motor cargo ship Poelau Roebiah of the Stoomvaart Mij Nederlands 2 motor tugs were loaded for Tarakan and Tunis. The largest was 18 metres and built by the shipyard Vooruit, Spaarndam, Netherlands, the other one by the Zaanlandsche Scheepsbouw Mij., Zaandam, Netherlands. Both tugs were fitted out with Kromhout diesels of respectively 100 and 150hp. The tug for Tunis was to be unloaded 3 miles off the Tunisian coast with the own winches and derricks of the Poelau Roebiah.
