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Monday, 14 November 2011

Dutch schooner brig Zr.Ms. Makassar 1843-1868


On stocks at Willemsoord 18 April 1851 and launched 1853. Armed with 6 guns, displacement 252 tons, dimensions 28,5 (over load line between perpendiculars x 8,7 (inner hull) x 3,34m, draught empty fore 1,64 and aft 2,64m, draught loaded fore 2,70 and aft 3,30m. Height battery fore 2,36, amidships 1,68 and aft 1,88m. Not longer mentioned on navy list dated 1 January 1868.

Sources
Marineblad 1898, special edition
A.J. Vermeulen. De schepen van de oninklijke Marine en die der gouvernementsmarine 1813-1964.
Collectie Klaassen Historical Branch Dutch Naval Staff.
Archive Department of Navy aanhangsel no. 227 (National Archive at The Hague).