Last Saturday was at the yard of the Commercie Compagnie with success the bark ship Pauline of around 500 Java lasten launched.(1) She was built for account of Boddaert en Compagnie of Middelburg and with master J.J. Brouwer destined for the Dutch East Indies trade shipping.In another Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated Monday 28 June 1841 was a item published dated Middelburg 25 June according to which she departed that day towards Batavia (Djakarta).
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).
