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Wijsmuller Marine

Founded in 1906 as Bureau Wijsmuller, starting ocean towage operations in 1913 and salvage two years later and subsequently acquiring the Amsterdam Tug and Salvage Co. in 1918. Taken over by Goedkoop in 1936, but bought back by the Wijsmuller family in 1961. Goedkoop themselves were acquired in 1979 and Cory Towage in 2000, the combined company being taken over by Svitzer Marine in 2001.