Keel laid down of a merchant ship at the Commercie Compagnie yard at Middelburg, Nethelands according to the Dutch newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated 18 June 1841

At the yard of the Commercie Compagnie at Middelburg, Netherlands was the keel laid down of a ship of about 500 Java lasten for account of a company of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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).