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Friday 4 October 2019

Grain ships underway from the USA towards Belgium according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 3 August 1880

An item reported that at Antwerp, Belgium enormous supplies of grain from the the American latest harvest were expected. Daily arrived large 3-masters loaded with grain coming from the USA. One example was the frigate ship Ocean Queen coming from San Francisco with a cargo of 43.617 hectolitres of wheat.