An item reported that the fast bark ship Albatros captain K.P. Haasnoot would depart end September towards the Netherlands. Excellent passenger accommodation. For more details could be asked at B. Kopersmit&Co. in Batavia.(1)
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1. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=355 reports that she was built in 1840 at the shipyard De Witte Oliphant of Jeremias Meyjes&Zn. For J.J. Poncelet&zn. In Amsterdam, sold in 1876 to J.&J. Vinke and she was lost in 1880. . 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. Bark, homeport Amsterdam, measurement 364 tons and call sign NBVF. The newspaper De Avon bode dated 29 January 1840 reported that she was the same afternoon at 14.30 o’clock at the shipyard de Witte Olijfant in the Kleine Kattenburgerstraat the barkship Albatros of 200 lasten was launched for Poncelet en Zoon captain K.P. Haasnoot. The edition dated 26 June 1840 reported that the newly built coppered 2-decks bark ship captain was lying in Amsterdam for her voyage towards Batavia. For more details could be asked at B.D. Bosscher. The newspaper Het nieuws van den dag dated 24 February 1876 reported that the sale of the bark ship Albatros of 364 tons captain Koch on 22 February in the Brakke Grond for ƒ 9.900 not was executed. The firm J.J. Poncelet&Zoon was a shipping company and firm with large interests in Mid- and South America and especially also Surinam with as head by Rodolphe le Chevalier (1776-1865).
