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Friday, 17 April 2020

Dutch merchant ship Cornelia launched at Krimpen op de IJssel, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated Tuesday 29 June 1841

At Krimpen op de IJssel, Netherlands was the Dutch bark ship Cornelia of 500 Java lasten launched.(1)

Note
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).