Zierikzee, 10 June. In the afternoon of Friday [6 June]
was at the town yard with success the coppered bark ship Willem de Clercq of
400 Java lasten launched by shipbuilder C. Mak.(1) She was build for account on
behalf of Boissevain&Co. at Rotterdam, destined for the Dutch East Indies
trade shipping and her master would be J.C. Hoek.(2) Recently was at the second
shipyard at Zierikzee the Goede Intentie owned by J. Strickaert the keel laid
down of the kof ship Marinus Gertrude on behalf of citizens from this town.
Notes
1.
In 1826 was the standard to calculate the cargo capacity of
a ship the so-called roggelast (rogge=rye) of 2.075 kilo’s. In 1827 made the
Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij a list of all colonial products with their
weights corresponding with the space needed for one roggelast. This became
known as the Java last. For instance the weight of a Java last tea was 1.000 kilo, of pepper
1.600, of rice 2.000 and of coffee 1.500 kilo (in the practice in fact 1.800).
2. The edition dated Tuesday 16 September 1845 reported
that she left Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands on 12 September underway from Rotterdam, Netherlands towards
Batavia, Dutch East Indies.
