An item reported that the long stay (5-18 October) by the Dutch protected corvette Hr. Ms. Sumatra (1) at Malta was caused by a broken axis of the pump movement of one of the engines. Further more were there problems with the lightning on board while some times the crew got little electric shocks. For this reason were from then on oil-fired lamps used in the engine room.
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1. Laid down at the Koninklijke Fabriek van Stoom- en andere Werktuigen, Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1888, launched on 26 April 1890 and sold to be broken up in 1907.
