An announcement reported that the fast newly coppered 500 tons bark ship Gerredina Wilhelmina captain F.W. Spier was lying in Amsterdam to depart on very short notice towards Macassar. Well passenger accommodation available. For more details could be asked at Oolgaardt&Bruinier in 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. Bark, call sign NTCP, measurement 382 tons and as homeport Amsterdam. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=5416 reports that she as build in 1853 at the shipyard De Witte Oliphant of J. Meyjes&Zn. in Amsterdam, ex-Henricus Gerardus renamed in 1866, and that she was condemned in 1893. Sweijs. Neerlands vloot en reederijen. Rotterdam, 1881 mentioned that she was owned by J.H.A.E. Meyjes in Amsterdam, build in 1853 with a measurement of 377 new and 382 old tons, captain K.K. Hagedoorn (Nieuwe Pekela Zeemanscollege Voorzorg, white red banded flag with back number 40) and that she was indeed the former Henricus Gerardus. First was she called a bark but this was corrected into a 3-mast schooner. An item dated The Hague dated 4 August reported that a day earlier at the yard of Meijes&Zn the bark ship Henricus Gerardus of 200 lasten was launched for Wed.B.W. van Starkenborg van Straten in Amsterdam.
