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scheepswerf Gebr. Damen
Family business Gebr. Damen in Hardinxveld-Giessendam was founded in 1927 by the Damen brothers. They started building boats for parlevinkers on the river. Later, they got Rijkswaterstaat as a major customer. Damen supplied them with cantonment boats, sounding boats and rafts, among other things. Other customers at the time were dredging companies.
History shipyardontwerper Henk Tingen
Henk Tingen is a yacht designer and died in 1998. He worked in Amsterdam and de Bilt until 1979. Around 1935, he was house designer of shipyard Huisman in Ronduite and in the 1950s-70s of gebr. Kok in Vinkeveen. Henk Tingen was also a yacht broker and sold many sailing ships , from 1947 to around 1965, to America.
Biography designerDamenvlet type CB
In the 1960s, slender round bilge vletten were built at several shipyards to a design by Henk Tingen.
Sister vesselsColofon: "75 jaar scheepswerf Damen" Dick de Jong 2002.
"van kachelpijp tot peilboot" Leo Leeuwis 1967.