An announcement reported that on Tuesday 24 May at 12.00 o’clock shipbrokers intended to sell on a public auction in the location corner Scheepmakershaven-Bierstraat wijk 1 no. 499 in Rotterdam the Dutch very fast coppered copper fastened bark ship Cornelia Hendrika with her inventory last captain J.J. Swart. She measured 581 tons and with as dimensions 36,90 x 6,07 x 5,08 (hold) metres. She was lying alongside the shipyard of J. Boele J.R.zoon in Amsterdam.