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Wednesday, 8 January 2020

Dutch schooner ship Laurens bound towards Gibraltar according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 29 September 1869

An announcement reported that the fast schooner ship Laurens captain H. de Kromme was lying in Rotterdam destined for Gibraltar on very short notice. For more details could be asked at Vlierboom&Suermondt.(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. The newspaper Groninger Courant dated 7 April 1854 reported that the 3rd with success ths schooner ship Ida was launched at the shipyard of E.H. Meursing in Hoogezand for captain J. de Boer in Sappemeer. For more details see the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=3770 which reported that she was built at the shipyard of Emmo Hooites Meursing at Hoogezand in 1854 as the Ida, renamed in 1864 Laurens and in 1871 Eendragt and that she was stranded off Rybatschi in 1887.