An announcement reported that fast 2-decks coppered bark ship Schelde the captain A.L. Hoffman was lying in Amsterdam destined directly towards Samarang on very short notice with most of her cargo already loaded. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers De Coningh&Co. at Amsterdam and P.A. van Es&Co. at Rotterdam.(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. Bark, homeport Zierikzee, measurement 658 tons and call sign PRVC. See for more details the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=2399 which reported she was built in 1851 in Zierikzee and sold in 1870 to Germany. The newspaper Zierikzeesche Courant dated Wednesday 5 February 1851 published an item dated Zierikzee the 4th reporting that the Saturay before with success at the shipyard of C. Smit by shipbuilder C. Mak the bark ship De Schelde of 450 Java lasten was launched for De Jonge&Keller in Zierikzee and with as captain J. van Delft Cz. She was destined for th Dutch East Indies shipping. Strangely reported the newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated the 6th that she measured 375 Java lasten. In 1826 was the standard to calculate the cargo capacity of a ship the so-called roggelast (rogge=rye) of 2.075 kilo’s. In 1827 made the Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij a list of all colonial products with their weights corresponding with the space needed for one roggelast. This became known as the Java last. For instance the weight of a Java last tea was 1.000 kilo, of pepper 1.600, of rice 2.000 and of coffee 1.500 kilo (in the practice in fact 1.800).
