Model Prinses Amelia, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands NG-MC-487. Original url
An item reported the intended launching at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands on next Friday of the Dutch steam corvette Zr. Ms. Prinses Amelia (1) which was laid down there in 1853. She was to be commissioned in spring 1856 just like the kuil corvette Zr. Ms. Prins Maurits der Nederlanden.(2)
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1. Former ‘kuil’ corvette Borneo, ‘kuil’corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands 30 August 1845, designed by K. Turk, disassembled and transported to the navy yard of Vlissingen, Netherlands in August 1850, laid down by P.A. Bruin 29 July 1853, launched as Princes Amelia as corvette with steam power afternoon Friday 12 October 1855, call sign GQRL, guard ship at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies 1872-1875, condemned and sold on auction at Surabaya for ƒ 20.000 to be broken up on 9 October 1875, dimensions 36,50 x 10,3 x 4,82 metres as Borneo and as Prinses Amelia 49,8 (load line between perpendiculars)-53,6 (foreside prow-aft side rudder stern) x 11 (inner hull) x 4,5(fore)-5,0 (aft) x 5,71 (depth) metres, displacement, 776 (Borneo)-1.350 (Prinses Amelia) tons, 807 tonnage (Prinses Amelia 1874), 16-19 (Prinses Amelia)-28 (Borneo) guns, crew as Prinses Amelia numbering 178 (1874)-207 men, maximum speed under steam 6-7knots and a horsepower of 150 hp. Armament as the Prinses Amelia consisted on gun deck of 12 long 30pd gun no. 2, 4-heavy 2”grenade guns no. 2 and on upper deck 1 long 30pd pivot gun no. 2 and at both sides 1 long 30pd gun no. 2. In 1869 8-long 30 pd guns, 4-20” grenade guns and 4-4pd rifled guns.
2. Former Atalante, ‘kuil’corvette, call sign GQRV, laid down at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands 9 June 1842 by P.A. Bruijn, launched 21 July 1849, renamed Prins Maurits der Nederlanden 1850, guard ship 1869-1870 Vlissingen and at Amsterdam, Netherlands 1877, decommissioned 1 October 1904, stricken 1905, sold an a public auction 11.00 o’clock for ƒ 16.788 to M.S. Springers at Amsterdam, Netherlands Thursday 10th January1907, sold within some days to a group of persons at Den Helder, Netherlands to break her up, 776 tons displacement, dimensions 36,50 x 10,30 x 4,80 metres, 18 (1869:medium 30pd)-26 guns and a crew of 200 men (1-10-1877).
