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Wednesday, 25 May 2016

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Zeeland underway from the Netherlands towards Portugal according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 22 May 1860

An item dated Middelburg, Netherlands 21th reported that the Dutch steam frigate Zr. Ms. Zeeland (1) captain H. Wipff left that morning the roads of Vlissingen, Netherlands towards Lisbon, Portugal.

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1. Screw steamship 1st class, call sign GRDC, wood-built, laid down at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands 28 February 1856, launched 31 July 1859, stricken 1874, guard ship at Batavia, Dutch East Indies 1875, decommissioned 8 December 1883, towed half January 1884 towards the roads of Surabaya, Dutch East Indies, sold on an auction for ƒ 20.600,00 to the Arab Sai Agil bin Hijdroes to be broken up in the morning of 15th March 1884, dimensions 63,5 x 15,7 x 6,7 metres, displacement 3.300 tons, horsepower 400 hp, speed 8 miles, a crew numbering 500 men and an armament of 4 (as guard ship 1-15cm, 3-12cm guns)-51 guns (consisting of 1 long 60pd gun, 30-long 30pd guns, 12-20” grenade guns and 8 rifled 16cm guns).