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Sunday 21 October 2012

Dutch bark ship Boni for sale according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 27 February 1868

An announcement reported that shipbrokers to sell on a public auction on Saturday 7 March 1868 at 12.00 o’clock in the Nederlandsch Koffijhuis of J. Zahn near the Scheffersplein in Dordrecht the fast coppered and copper fastened Dutch bark ship Boni captain C.J. Rotgans. She measured 575 tons or 303 lasten with as dimensions 36,40 x 7,14 x 4,98 (hold) metres and was now lying alongside the shipyard het Witte Kruis of Johs. Meijjes&Zoon in the Kleine Kattenburgerstraat, Amsterdam.

Note
1. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1867. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1867. Bark, homeport Dordrecht, measurement 575 tons and call sign NHCM.
According to the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=8815 built in 1855 ar Capelle aan den IJssel as the Kemangle for F.S. Spanrnaay&Zn. and renamed 1861 Bonie and list in 1869. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 18 April 1855 published an item dated Capelle a/d IJssel 16 April reported that the same day of the shipyard of W.&J. Hoogendijk the bark ship Kemanglen of circa 290 measured lasten was launched for F.S. Sparnnaaij&Zonen, Rotterdam and captain H.H. Smit.