According to a tiding dated Zierikzee 22 March bought some of the prosperous residents of the town the bark ship Duiveland which was still on stocks for the Dutch East Indies trade shipping and was the intention after she was launched to lay down the keel of a similar ship.(1) In the edition dated Monday 12 July was the tiding dated Zierikzee 12 July published that on Tuesday 13 July at 14.30 o’clock the Duiveland of around 400 lasten was to be launched by shipbuilder C. Mak. This newspaper published on Wednesday 29 March 1848 the tiding that she arrived on 9 January at Batavia. Here she was to be loaded with rice destined for the Netherlands.
Note
1. On 5 June was the Schouwen launched by Mak, possible the second ship mentioned in the first news item. According to the Zierikzeesche Courant dated Friday 1 October 1847 which published a item dated Zierikzee 1 October left that morning the Duiveland master J.C. Kreije Zierikzee towards Batavia.
