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Now let’s bounce back south of Leiden, west of Rotterdam . . . to Maassluis.  Notice all the gray color upper left side of the aerial below . . .  all greenhouses!  I have lots of fun looking at this part of NL by google map.

At the center of Maassluis  . . . you guessed it, there’s an island called Church Island,  because

at its center is a church, completed in 1639.

I believe the larger vessel here–seen next to the drawbridge above–is Jansje, built 1900. The smaller one . . . I don’t know.

Check out the wheel

I’m guessing this was a fish market . . .

as my attempt (help?) at translation here is “people who sail something well, God takes them with him.”  How far off am I?

Anyhow, that 1664 building is on Anchor Street and leads to the De Haas shipyard.

Harbor tug Maassluis was built right here by De Haas in 1949.

Below is a photo I took of her back in 2014 in Dordrecht.

Salvage vessel Bruinvisch first launched in 1937, and has returned to a pristine state by the efforts of many volunteers.  You can befriend her on FB at “Bergingsvaartuig Bruinvisch.”

Notice the white building off the stern of tug Hudson?  That is the National Dutch Towage Museum.  I wanted to visit but came at the wrong hour.  Oh well, next time, Kees.

 

 

The next three photos come from John van der Doe, who sent them a few months back.

Furie is a sea-going steam tug built in 1916.  You can see many photos of her on FB at “StichtingHollandsGlorie.”

And Hudson, 1939, currently without an engine, narrowly escaped being scrapped.  She spent a number of years in the 60s and 70s as a floating ice-making plant.

Many thanks to John for these last photos.  All others by Will Van Dorp, who has more Maassluis photos tomorrow.  One more for now, the day I was there, Furie was over in the De Haas yard.

And below is a print I found on board Hercules–this coming Sunday’s p0st–showing Furie in a dramatic sea.

I couldn’t get a photo, but as a monument in a traffic circle in Maassluis, there’s a huge beting aka H-bitt.  Here’s a photo . . . it may be the third one.