An announcement reported that the newly coppered Dutch bark ship captain Mallbranc was to depart from Rotterdam towards Valparaiso in first half of May. For more details could be asked at Eug. Vogts&Co., Wijnstraat and ship brokers Kuyper van Dam&Smeer.(1)
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1. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1869. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1869. Call sign NKMJ, homeport Rotterdam, bark, measurement 548 tons. The Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated Wednesday 30 April 1851 published an item dated The Hague 29 April reporting that last Friday with success the bark ship Columbine was launched at the shipyard of C. Smits at Alblasserdam. The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 30 June 1869 reported that the sale of 1/32 part in her for ƒ 650+ƒ 50 on Monday 28 June in the Nieuwe Stads-Herberg at the IJ, Amsterdam was not executed. She was called a bark ship of 544 tons.
