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Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Dutch bark ship Amsterdam stranded off Kijkduin, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Heldersche en Nieuwedieper Courant dated 5 November 1863

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.