Maria B. – Scholarship engine

Maria B. – Scholarship engine

Emmetje was the name of the first owner’s daughter. The same name was given to the ship he had built. For a long time, the “Emmetje” was a so-called “turn-engine”: the ship ran a turn-engine service between Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel and...
Margaretha – Motor tugboat

Margaretha – Motor tugboat

Motor tug “Margaretha” was frankly just a mess when the current owner purchased the vessel in 1993. Over the years, everything had been tinkered with, and originality was no longer an issue. But this owner knew the answer to that. Everything that was not...
Linquenda – Hasselter aak

Linquenda – Hasselter aak

The “Linquenda” has had several names and owners. This is how the ship was called “Vorwoirts” during the occupation. In 1996 the bare boat was completely timbered inside and a mast was put back, the then owner wanted to sail it again. When the...
La Dolce Vita – Frisian tjalk

La Dolce Vita – Frisian tjalk

During World War II, skipper Gerben Beijert made several dangerous trips from Drachten to Coevorden with his “Nova Cura,” as this ship was then called, to fetch peat. The people of Drachten were so grateful for this that after the war they even named a...
Johanna Maria – River Clipper

Johanna Maria – River Clipper

Skipper Van Vliet of Rotterdam, who had this ship built, actually wanted to name it after his wife: Maria Johanna. But the shipyard refused to build a ship with a Catholic first name. And so it became a compromise: “Johanna Maria. It sailed as a sailing ship...