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Thursday 28 April 2016

Commanding officer of the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Metalen Kruis replaced according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche courant dated 27 April 1867


Portrait of Jan Vos. Original source

An item reported that captain lieutenant A.L. Palm (1) on 15 May would be with all honours be dismissed as commanding officer of the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Metalen Kruis (2) and to be replaced on the 16th by captain lieutenant J. Vos (3).

Notes
1. Aart Lodewijk Palm (21 November 1822 Surabaya, Dutch East Indies-27 July 1893 The Hague, Netherlands), retired in the rank of captain lieutenant.
2. Screw steamship 1st class also called frigate, call sign GQNT, wood-built, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam on 21 March 1860, launched on 29 July 1862, ex-Soerabaja renamed in 1863, commissioned on 17 September 1863, building costs ƒ 752.588,82, decommissioned and condemned at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies on 20 September 1878, dimensions 58,00 (between perpendiculars) x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, a displacement of 2.030 tons, horsepower 700 hp, speed 8,5 knots, an armament of 16 guns (8 long 30pd, 8 rifled 16cm) and a crew numbering 225 men.
3. Jan Vos (9 October 1817 Vlissingen, Netherlands-4 August 1884 Utrecht, Netherlands), retired on 1 May 1874, promoted to the rank of rear admiral in 1878.