An
item dated Den Helder the 4th reported that in the evening of the 3rd
emergency signals were heard coming from the sea. It was the Dutch bark ship
Amsterdam captain A.H. Wehdemeijer loaded with coffee, tea, indigo and sugar
coming from Java, Dutch East Indies and which stranded near pale 2 (30 minutes
south of Kijkduin) around 20.00 o’clock. Her captain and 14 sailors were saved,
one sailor drowned.