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Wednesday, 12 February 2020

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 24 June 1830

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands. Source 

An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands the 22nd reported the successful launching that day of the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite.(1)

Note
1. Flush-decked corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands by C. Soetermeer 1827, launched 22 June 1830, reduced to 20-gun ‘kuil’-corvette 1837, stricken >1851-1852<, with as dimensions 39 (between perpendiculars) x 10,5 (inner hull) x 4,10 (fore)-4,70 9aft) x 5,37 (hold below deck) metres and a displacement of <850 tons. The armament consisted of 18 short 30pd guns and 2-12pd guns after 1837.