Experiments with soot and spark catchers on board of the Dutch screw steamship 2nd class Marnix according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 5 November 1882

Here shown as accommodation ship

An item reported that on board of the screw steamship 2nd class Marnix lying at Nieuwediep, Netherlands experiments were to be executed with so-called soot and spark catchers for the funnels of the galley and distillation boiler just like the German navy already used.(1)

Note
1. Laid down at the navy yard of Amsterdam on 1 May 1865, launched on 6 June 1867,commissioned 1 July 1868?, decommissioned on 16 February 1886, engines and boilers removed and fitted out as accommodation ship for torpedomen at Willemsoord, Netherlands and commissioned on 26 March 1888, decommissioned on 16 November 1908, sold at Willemsoord for ƒ 19.003 to Oudkerk and Van Praag, Den Helder, Netherlands to be broken up on 24 June 1910. With a displacement of 1.488 tons were her dimensions 60,60 x 9,70 x 4,90 metres. With a horsepower of 280 nhp/770 ehp was her speed 10 miles. Her crew numbered 130 men. The armament consisted of 2-15cm guns and 4-12cm guns. Building costs ƒ 677.007,55. Served also in the Dutch East Indies.