Building of Dutch merchant ships at Dordrecht and Amsterdam according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 26 August 1825

Ron van Maanen

Amsterdam, 24 August. At the yard Hollandia belonging to the shipbuilder C. van Swieten were the keels laid down of 2 large steamboats for the line Amsterdam-Hamburg and London. Present were the commissaries and directors of the Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij. The ships were to be named Willem de Eerste and the Beurs van Amsterdam.

Dordrecht, 24 August. The prow of the brig Louisa, Prinses der Nederlanden of circa 350 last was at 14.00 o’clock at the yard of Jan Schouten straightened in the presence of a music corps of the civic guard. By the young man Jaques Vriesendorp, son of the director of the company J.S. Vriesendorp was the first nail nailed. Owner of the ship was to be the Dordrechtse scheepsrederij.

Around 16.00 o’clock was at the yard at the Lijnbaan of shipbuilder Cornelis Gips the prow straightened of the kof De Hoop of 135 last build for Willem de Jongh and others. His son Willem nailed the first nail.