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Thursday 29 December 2016

Dutch paddle steamship 4th class Zr. Ms. Onrust serving in the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche staatscourant dated 2 April 1865

An item dated 15th February referred to tidings dealing with the movements of the Dutch squadron in the Dutch East Indies reported that the Dutch steamship Zr. Ms. Onrust lieutenant 1st class P. Roodzant was stationed at the west coast of Borneo, Dutch East Indies and cruising on and before the rivers there.(1)

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Call sign GQPN, iron-built. on stocks at the shipyard of Ned. Stoomboot Mij. Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 15 September 1860, launched in 1863 with yard number 62, disassembled, transported to the Dutch East Indies and in 1863 at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies  assembled, decommissioned on 1 September 1892, stricken 1892, sold for ƒ 8.400 to Kwee Hap Tik at the naval establishment at Surabaya at 10.00 o’clock on Saturday 4 March 1893, dimensions 45,72 x 6,50-12,4 (over paddle wheels) x 1,70m, 293 tons displacement, 3 (1-30pd, 2-12cm carronades)-4 (1885: 2-12cm, 2-7cm rifled )guns, horsepower 80 hp and a crew numbering 43-67 (45 Europeans and 22 natives) men.