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Thursday 13 February 2020

Russian 3-mast schooner Nora coming from Demerara arrived in the Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 30 October 1903

An item reported the arrival yesterday morning at Vlissingen, Netherlands of the Russian 3-mast schooner Nora coming from Demerara with a cargo of greenheart for the Dutch firm N.V. Houthandel voorheen G. Albertsz Lzn.&Co., Middelburg, Netherlands. Four of her crew members were sick and some persons went on board to assist the remaining crew to bring her to Middelburg. Another newspaper De Zeeuw dated 31st supplied more details although claiming it was not the Nora but the Benor captain Utlopart. At Vlissingen examined the quarantine doctor the crew of which the major part were brought to the Gasthuis (hospital) probably suffering from malaria.