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Tuesday 17 March 2020

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite returned from the Dutch West Indies and decommissioned according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 30 October 1841

Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands representing after she was razeed. 

An item dated The Hague, Netherlands the 26th reported that the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite recently returned from the Dutch West Indies was decommissioned on the 20th at Willemsoord, Netherlands.(1)

Note
1. Flush-decked corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands by C. Soetermeer 1827, launched 22 June 1830, commissioned 16 August 1830, reduced to 20-gun ‘kuil’-corvette 1837, decommissioned November-December 1851 at Curacao due to worse condition and not able to return homewards, sold to be broken up at Curacao 13 April 1852, with as dimensions 39 (between perpendiculars) x 10,5 (inner hull) x 4,10 (fore)-4,70 (aft) x 5,37 (hold below deck) metres and a displacement of <850 tons, an armament consisted of 18 short 30pd guns and 2-12pd guns after 1837 and a crew numbering 300 men (1830).