Launching of the Dutch merchant bark ship Haamstede at Zierikzee, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated Tuesday 22 May 1855

Middelburg, 21 May. Friday afternoon was at the yard of C. Smit at Zierikzee with success the bark ship Haamstede with a measurement of 390 lasten launched on behalf of the company M.C. de Crane&Zoon with as master H.H. de Boer.