Thanks to newspapers we can obtain sometimes valuable informations using published announcements of departure or arrival of ships of selling on auctions. An example is the announcement of the sell of the Agneta on Monday 31 October 1859 in the Nieuwe Stads-Herberg at the IJ, Amsterdam. She was described as an extra ordinary, well sailing coppered ship sailing under Dutch flag with as master J. Jonker. According to the Dutch tonnage certificate were her dimensions 38 el 55 duim x 6 el 73 duim x 5 el 93 duim (-38,55 x 6,73 x 5,93 metres) and with a measurement of 864 tonnen or 361 lasten. She could be visited in the Oosterdok at Amsterdam.
