Zierikzee, 10 June. In the afternoon of Friday [6 June] was at the town yard with success the coppered bark ship Willem de Clercq of 400 Java lasten launched by shipbuilder C. Mak.(1) She was build for account on behalf of Boissevain&Co. at Rotterdam, destined for the Dutch East Indies trade shipping and her master would be J.C. Hoek.(2)
Notes
1. In 1826 was the standard to calculate the cargo capacity of a ship the so-called roggelast (rogge=rye) of 2.075 kilo’s. In 1827 made the Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij a list of all colonial products with their weights corresponding with the space needed for one roggelast. This became known as the Java last. For instance the weight of a Java last tea was 1.000 kilo, of pepper 1.600, of rice 2.000 and of coffee 1.500 kilo (in the practice in fact 1.800).
2. The edition dated Tuesday 16 September 1845 reported that she left Hellevoetsluis on 12 12 September underway from Rotterdam Batavia
