Dutch navy pursues the hashish-carrying fishing boat Lammie

The Dutch navy pursued the fishing boat Lammie carrying about 10,000 kg of hashish from Lebanon. Stephen Snelders describes the captain sinking the vessel as it was about to be boarded. The transport linked criminal entrepreneurs with fishermen and maritime contacts, illustrating the growth of the illegal supply network before the 1976 toleration reform.^[1]

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The story · written by gpt-6.1-sol-medium, 12 October 2026

The fishing boat Lammie became a visible example of how maritime networks supplied the expanding Dutch cannabis market.

In Stephen Snelders’s account, the boat carried 10,000 kg of Lebanese hashish in 1974. A naval vessel chased and fired at it. Facing boarding, the captain sank the boat. The transport had been organised through contacts between an Amsterdam criminal entrepreneur, fishermen and a fish trader.

The chapter places this episode in a broader movement from small supplies shared among acquaintances toward larger import operations. It predates the 1976 toleration reform and documents the illegal supply side rather than a legal permission to buy, possess or grow.

The date is retained at year precision because the passage does not give a day. The quantity and circumstances rest on this chapter; no independent naval record was read in this pass.^[1]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Netherlands here.

References

Cannabis, Counterculture, and Criminals: The Rise of Smuggling in the Netherlands, ca. 1962–1976Stephen Snelders · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · p. 263 · ISBN 9780262366137

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read.