Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zoutman arrived at Yokohama, Japan coming from the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 19 September 1865

An item reported the arrival on 7^th April at Yokohama, Japan by the Dutch screw steamship 1^st class Zoutman captain J. van der Meersch coming from Batavia, Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. screw steamship 1^st, call sign GRDH, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 15 November 1859, launched in the afternoon of 20 September 1861 and condemned/stricken in 1871. Wood-built. Displacement 2.030 tons, as dimensions 58,00-62,84 x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, horsepower of 250 hp, a crew numbering 250 men and an armament consisting of 8 long 30 pd guns and 8-16 cm rifled guns. Her engines seemed in 1874 to be used for the Zr.Ms. Van Galen.