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An item reported that on Monday morning the experiments with aircraft bombing above the roads of Texel, Netherlands were executed. The Dutch sea plane W 70 with on board officer flyer V.d. Vijver and navigator lieutenant Weemhof dropped from a height of 800 meters bombs on the former ram Stier. The results were very promising, with a well path followed by the bombs resulting even in a hit. The experiments leaded by lieutenant 1st class S. Woldringh were now ended. Officers of the air force section stationed at Soesterberg, Netherlands had been present. The Algemeen Handelsblad dated 2 March reported that the week before the intended experiments were postponed due to the weather.(1)
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1. Call sign GQVL, on stocks at Brothers Laird, Birkenhead, England 7 June 1867, launched 9 April 1868. Trial 18 August 1868. Commissioned 18 August 1869. Dimensions 59.43 x 11.58 x 4.87m, displacement 2112 tons, speed 12.46 knots, 2257 ihp. Armed with 2-23cm guns, 1882 rearmed with 1-28cm guns and 7-3.7cm guns. Armour belt 76-152mm, gun turrets 203-280mm, command turret 114mm, deck 19-25mm. Crew original 110, later 137 men. Fitted out with 2 engines, each with two cylinders and 4 boilers. Building costs ƒ 1.136.470. Destined for service in Dutch coastal waters and made never trips to foreign countries. In 1882 large repairs at the naval yard at Amsterdam. In 1908 disarmed and laid up. Seven years later in service as magazine at the naval yard at Willemsoord [Den Helder]. In 1925 used as target for bombs dropped by aeroplanes. August-September 1930 partly dismantled by navy divers with explosives.
