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Thursday, 3 April 2014

Dutch bark Jean Baptiste underway from Scotland towards USA and from there to Belgium according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 13 April 1891

An item reported that the Dutch bark ship Jean Baptiste (1) captain G. Bruijn of De Groof&Co., Vlissingen, Netherlands  departed the 9th from Greenock, Scotland towards Mobile, USA for a cargo timber destined for Antwerp, Belgium.

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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, 1892. Callsign PFKH. Net tonnage 891 tonnen, 2.254,60 cubic metres or 795,90 tons of 2,83 cubic metres.