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Sunday, 3 August 2014

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Dolfijn with convoy from Aruba towards Venezuela according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 2 October 1819

An item reported the departure from Willemstad, Curacao on Sunday of the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Dolfyn captain Wardenburg towards Aruba arriving there Wednesday afternoon to pick up a convoy bound for Puerto Cabello and La Guayra, Venezuela and departed with this on Thursday morning.

Note
1. ‘Kuil’corvette, Department Amsterdam, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands January or 13 February 1817, launched on 21 February 1818, coppered 1819, while floating in the harbour of Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands intensively repaired by deputy constructor Bakker in May-October 1821, accommodation ship 1825, docked at the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis and broken up 11 November 1842, served in the Dutch West and East Indies and an armament of, 28 guns.