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Wednesday 11 May 2016

Dutch steamship 4th class Zr. Ms. Suriname decommissioned at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche staatscourant dated 6 August 1864

Model NG_MC-482. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Original url

An item referred to tidings dated 14 June 1864 dealing with the movements of the Dutch squadron in the Dutch East Indies reported that the Dutch steamship 4th class Zr. Ms. Suriname lieutenant 1st class A.A. ‘s Graeuwen was decommissioned on 31 May at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. Call sign GQVP, on stocks at the shipyard of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij Fijenenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 15 April 1845, launched in December 1845, used for towing Dutch ships loaded with grain returning from Elsinore, Denmark in 1847, visited the Dutch West Indies/Surinam in 1847, served in the Dutch East Indies since 1851, stricken in 1875, iron-built hull and wood upper decks, dimensions 40,4 (between perpendiculars on load line) x 7,4 x 2,3 (fore)-2,7 (aft) x 4,56 (hold) metres, an armament of 6 guns and horsepower of 110 hp.