Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Johan Willem Friso 1886-1899

Havana, Cuba 10 April 1892. On 13th she returned towards the Netherlands.

Also called frigate, call sign GQLN, laid down as the Kortenaer at the naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 22 October 1883, launched on 10 June 1886, commissioned on 1 February 1888, decommissioned on 16 September 1896 and sold on 25 May 1899 at Willemsoord for ƒ 82.154, 60½ to F.H. de Goeij cum suis at Den Helder to be broken up. Dimensions 80-91,85 x 12,64 x 7,00 metres, displacement 3.710 ton, horsepower 3.133 hp, speed 14,8 miles, crew numbered 280 men and an armament of 6-17cm guns and 8-12cm guns. Engines and boilers manufactured at the Nederlandse Stoomboot Mij, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Iron-built wood planked.