An announcement reported that the well known Dutch campagne bark ship Zeenymph captain J.J. Graadt van Roggen was to depart Amsterdam end July towards Batavia with on board a skilled doctor and a milk cow. For more details could be asked at owner F.A. Jas and shipbrokers De Vries&Co., IJgracht U 40 at Amsterdam.(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. Homeport Amsterdam, call sign QDFM, measurement 622 tons, bark. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=6996 reports that she was built in 1854 at the shipyard Het Wapen van Amsterdam (former Koning David) in Amsterdam and that she was sold to Germany in 1871. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 3 October 1854 published an announcement that she was to depart Amsterdam towards Batavia, Samarang and Surabaya. Captain of this newly built coppered bark ship was J.W.J. Witsen Elias and owner F.A. Jas. Excellent passenger accommodation with spacious cabins with a bathroom, piano and library. For more details could be asked at shipbroker De Vries&Co, in Amsterdam. The edition dated 7 August published an item dated Amsterdam Saturday 5 August that she was launched that day at the shipyard het Wapen van Amsterdam by shipbuilder F. Haverkamp, measuring around 300 lasten.
