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Wednesday 22 October 2014

Dutch paddle steamship 4th class Zr.Ms. Onrust 4th being repaired at Surabaya Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche staatscourant dated 10 August 1869

An item referred to an official tiding dated 15 June dealing wit the movements of the Dutch warships serving in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch paddle steamship 4th class Zr.Ms. Onrust 4th class lieutenant 1st class J.C.H. Beeloo was being repaired at Surabaya.(1)

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1. Paddle steamship 4th class, on stocks at the shipyard of Ned. Stoomboot Mij. Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 15 September 1860, launched in 1863 with yard number 62, disassembled, transported to the Dutch East Indies and in 1863 at Surabaya assembled, decommissioned on 1 September 1892, stricken 1892, sold for ƒ 8.400 in 1893, dimensions 45,72 x 6,50-12,4 (over paddle wheels) x 1,70m, 293 tons displacement, 3 (1-30pd, 2-12cm carronades)-4 (1885: 2-12cm, 2-7cm rifled )guns, horsepower 80 hp and a crew numbering 43-67 (45 Europeans and 22 natives) men.