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Another one taken in the Museum harbor 'Willemsoord' in Den Helder, The Netherlands.

Shown is the steam tug 'Noordzee' ('North Sea') that was built in 1922 on behalf of the 'Blohm & Voss' shipyard in Hamburg, Germany under construction number 609 on the neighboring yard 'Janssen & Schmillinsky'. The almost 23-meter-long tugboat was realized after the design of the tug 'Fairplay IX', which had already been launched at this yard.

Some details (for ship lovers, 😁): as propulsion, the tug received a compound steam engine built by the 'Blohm & Voss' machine factory and a two-fired coal-fired Scottish boiler with a working pressure of 10.5 atmospheres and a heated surface of 94 square meters. The steering machine, the anchor winch, the light machine, the salvage pump and the turbine generator worked on steam. The ship had a bunker capacity of 18 tons of coal.

The steamship was restored in the Netherlands in 1976 and 2018, and is berthed now in the Museum harbor since 2018.