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Saturday 26 September 2015

Dutch ‘kuil’ corvette Zr. Ms. Castor 1830-1866

Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands. Original url

On stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1830 by P. Schuijt jr., launched 1835, training battery 1849, stricken as an training battery at Willemsoord, Netherlands 1866, public tenders on 30 May 1866 11.00 o’clock at Willemsoord asked for breaking her up, dimensions 36,50 (between perpendiculars) x 10,0 (inner hull) x 4,25 (fore)-4,82 (aft) x 5,39 (depth below main deck), 775 tons displacement and an armament of 28 guns (20-12pd guns or 20-30pd carronades, 8-12pd carronades and 2-6pd guns.