MERCUUR pilot training vessel

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For the 60th Anniversary of Madurodam the Netherlands has issued in 2012 a miniature sheet of which three stamps shows ships. http://www.shipstamps.co.uk/forum/viewt ... nen#p14190
Tugdoc has identified the black hulled ship underway on the Netherland Nieuwe Waterweg stamp behind the two moored red hulled vessels as the Dutch pilot training vessel MERCUUR.
She was built as a buoy/lighthouse maintenance vessel under yard No 738 by E.J. Smit & Zn., Westerbroek, Netherlands for it Rijksloodwezen (State pilotage) at Vlissingen (Flushing)’
22 October 1955 laid down.
22 October 1955 launched as the FRANS NAEREBOUT named after a famous pilot in Vlissingen (1748 – 1818).
Tonnage 242 gross, 72 nrt 432 dwt, dim. 40.50 x 7.95 x 3.70m. 2.65m draught, length bpp. 38.11
Powered by one 8-cyl. Bolnes diesel engine, 400 hp., speed 10.5 knots.(if it the engine is the engine placed by building or refit I am not sure.)
29 August 1956 completed, based at Vlissingen.

1988 Sold to G, Boon Survey Charter, Den Helder, Netherland, not renamed.
1995 Sold to Kees Lont & Son and rebuilt in a game fishing vessel for the Nord Sea and a new diesel engine installed.
1996 Sold to J.P. Bakker in Den Oever, Netherland, not renamed.
2001 Sold to Sportvisserij Paraat in Den Oever, not renamed.
2003 Sold to Andre Loonstra in Hippolytushoef, Netherland, renamed MERCUUR.
So far I can find out is she used between the game voyages also as a pilot training vessel by the Dutch pilot service in the Netherlands till today.
2018 Same owner and name, IMO No 8432974.

Source Wikipedia. http://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schip_detail/8100/
Netherland 2012 first rate mail, sg?, scott?