An announcement reported that on Tuesday 21 July 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, Netherlands the fast known coppered and copper fastened Dutch bark ship Trijntje Fenna captain J. Abbink with as measurement 585 tons or 309 lasten and as dimensions 36,40 x 7,32 x 4,94 (hold) metres. She was now lying in the Westerhaven, Rotterdam where she could be visited daily.(1)
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1. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=11047 mentioned that she was built in 1854 at the shipyard of Willem&Jan Hoogendijk&Co. in Capelle a/d IJssel for Schloss&Co. in Rotterdam. Renamed Petronella in 1864 and wrecked in 1878. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1867. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1867. Mentioned a bark Petronella with as homeport Amsterdam, a measurement of 559 tons and as call sign PQCF. The newspaper Rotterdamsche Courant dated 25 August 1854 reported that a day earlier she was launched and described her as a campagne barks ship, captain J. des Ruelles.
