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Friday 13 May 2016

Dutch paddle steamship 4th class Zr. Ms. Admiraal van Kinsbergen stationed in the south and east department of Borneo, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 30 November 1864


An item dated referred to tidings dated 15 October dealing with the movements of the Dutch squadron in the Dutch East Indies reported that the Dutch steamship 4th class Zr. Ms. Admiraal van Kinsbergen lieutenant 1st class A. Rietveld was stationed in the south and east department of Borneo, Dutch East Indies. She left on 1 September Bandjermasin, Dutch East Indies and was now lying at Soengei Lelih below Montallat, Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. Paddle steamship 4th class, call sign GQBN, built at the shipyard of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij at Rotterdam, Netherlands but apparently disassembled and assembled at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies in 1853-1854, commissioned on 7 May 1853, docked at Bandjermassing, Dutch East Indies 21 August-15 September 1877, decommissioned 25 December 1877 at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, condemned, displacement 293 tons and as dimensions 45,72 x 6,50-12,40 (over side wheels) x 1,70 metres, horsepower 70 hp, armament one 30 pd gun and a crew numbering 43 men (1877).