An item reported that at Anjer [nowadays Anyer, Indonesia] by the lighthouse a detachment of the Zr. Ms. Pontianak was stationed to protect it. Of population seek at least the wives and children refugee on board of a German ship lying in the roads when the tiding of the revolt was received.(1)
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1. Screw steamship 4th class, call sign GQRH, on stocks at the Koninklijke Fabriek van stoom- en andere werktuigen, Amsterdam, Netherlands in July 1873, launched in December 1873, commissioned by lieutenant 1st class J.H. Commijs on 25 May 1874, left the shipyard on 28 May 1874, used for several voyages towards Netherlands New Guinea and the Aroe Islands to supervise the pearl fishers in 1893-1894, de commissioned on 1 February 1893, condemned and sold for ƒ 10.000,00. Composite-built and coppered. Displacement 732 tons, dimensions 42,00-45,00 x 8,80 x 3,60 metres, one horizontal working injection condensing engine, one screw, speed 9,5 miles and horsepower 90 nhp. Her crew numbered in 1885 75 Europeans and 24 natives. Original armament consisted of 1-rifled 18cm guns and 2-12cm KA no.1 guns, replaced in 1891 at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies by. 1 rifled 16cm gun and 2-3,7cm guns.
