An announcement reported that the fast clipper frigate ship Bilderdijk captain A. Viëtor destined directly to Samarang while visiting Batavia for embarking passengers. Well passenger accommodations, a skilled doctor and a milk cow on board. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers.(1)
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1. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1869. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1869. 3-Mast ship, homeport Rotterdam, measurement 754 tons and call sign NHBL. See for more details the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=2399 which reported that she was built in 1858 at the shipyard of J. de Jonge in Lekkerkerk, renamed in 1874 Enterprise II and wrecked in 1875 off Cuba on the Colorado reef. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 1 May 1858 published an item dated Lekkerkerk 30 April that the same date of the yard of Jacob de Jong with success the frigate ship Bilderdijk of circa 420 measured lasten was launched for Anes&Co. in Rotterdam, and captain M. Lösschen.
