Ron van Maanen
At the yard of the Commercie Compagnie at Middelburg were on 24 December the keels laid down of two frigate ships of 500 Java lasten, one for account of Karthaus Hasenclever en Compagnie of Amsterdam with as master H.K. Hillers and one for a (yet anonymous) company of Middelburg. Both ships were destined for the Dutch East Indies trade shipping.
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).
