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Thursday 17 July 2014

Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (N.H.M.) hired Dutch bark Mary en Hillegonda as troop transport according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 8 November 1865

An item reported that the N.H.M. hired the Dutch ship Mary en Hillegonda captain P. Walters to transport 125 military and some cabin passengers from the Netherlands towards Java, Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. Source Staat der Nederlandsche Zeemagt en Koopvaardij-vloot op 1 Januarij 1864 mentioned a bark, captain H.O. Piccardt, Rotterdam no. 184-flagged, owned by E. Suermondt&Zn.&Co., tonnage 754 tons, built 1856 and homeport Rotterdam, Netherlands.