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Saturday, 8 October 2011

War- and merchant ships anchored off Batavia, Dutch East Indies 6 April 1838 according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 8 August 1838

Model Hippomenes. Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands

Dutch warships Zr.Ms. brig Orestes, frigate Diana (1) and corvette Hippomenes (2).
Dutch civil schooner Alcinoé.(3)
Dutch merchant ships Marzoek, Stad Utrecht, Nassau, Oemar Osman, Oost-Indien, brigs Dorathea, Twee Gezusters, barks Margaret, Decima, Blora, Kalimaas and schooners Amelia and Thaij Lae.
American merchant ships Brenda, Hindoo and William Brown.
British merchant ships Asia, brig Briton and bark Royal Sovereign.
Cochin China merchant ship Lim Fong.
Chinese junk Djiethien.

Notes
1. Designed by sir John Henslew as part of the Artois-class which class was approved on 2 March 1793. Her building at the shipyard of Randall&Co. te Rotherhithe, England was ordered on 28 March and she was laid down the same month, launched on 3 March 1794, commissioned 6 June at the navy yard at Deptford. Building costs+for the first time fitted out 21.991 pond. Armed with 38 guns. Dimensions 121’8½”(keel)-146‘3“(gundeck) x 39’1½” x 13’0” and a measurement of 999 43/54 tons. Laid up in 1812 at Plymouth, England. Between March 1813 and September 1814 large repairs at the shipyard of Isaac Blackburn, Turnchapel, England. Sold in 1815 to the Netherlands for 36.796 pond. In 1838 lying dry docked at Willemsoord, Netherlands heavily damaged when fire broke out on board and sold to be broken up.
2. ‘Kuil’corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands by P. Schuijt jr. 1826, launched Thursday 22 April 1830, docked at the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 15-16 September 1837, accommodation at Amsterdam 1841, floating barracks ship for the 1st company of marines at Amsterdam 1844, condemned and sold on a public auction at he navy yard at Amsterdam to be broken up on 31 May 1854, dimensions 36,50 (between perpendiculars) x 10,0 (inner hull) x 4,25 (fore)-4,82 (aft) x 5,39 (depth below main deck) metres, 775 tons displacement and an armament of 28 guns (20-12pd guns/20-30pd carronades, 8-12pd carronades and 6-6pd guns).
3. Colonial navy, built in Dutch East Indies, with an armament of 4 guns.