An announcement reported that the fast Dutch coppered bark ship Friesland was lying in Rotterdam captain P. Sipkes destined towards directly to Samarang and possible Batavia. Fitted out with excellent passengers accommodation. For more details could be asked at Hudig&Blokhuyzen en Kuyper van Dam&Smeer and P.A. van Es&Co. at Rotterdam or Canne&Balwe 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. 3-Mast ship, homeport Harlingen, measurement 716 tons and call sign NRWK. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 5 May 1869 published an item dated Tuesday 4 May reporting that the sale in the tavern on the croner Scheepmakershaven/Bierstraat for ƒ 21.000 of the bark ship Friesland of 378 lasten and with T. Sipkes as last captain was not executed. The newspaper Het Nieuws van den dag dated 23 February 1887 reported that the sale of the bark ship Friesland for ƒ 5.000 on Monday 21 February at 15.00 o’clock in the Brakke Gond not was executed. The newspaper Java-bode dated 30 March published an item dated Amsterdam 21 February that the sale of the bark ship Friesland of 631 tons and built in 1858 not was executed. The newspaper Het Nieuws van dendag dated 1 February 1897 reported that she (631 tons, built 1858) was sold for a kept secret price to C. Constant in Zijpe to be broken up. The website http://www.zeemansleed.nl/?p=1579 said that was built at the shipyard Welgelegen of D.&L. Alta, Harlingen with a tonnage of 737/378 lasten and as dimensions 40 x 7.5 x 5,71 metres. Since 1867 a bark. The newspaper Nieuw Amsterdamsch handles- en effectenblad dated 20 April 1858 published an item dated Harlingen 15 April that the same day with success the Friesland of 390 measured lasten was launched for Zeilmaker&Co. with as captain Mispelblom Beijer. She was the largest merchant ship ever built in Frisia.
