An announcement reported that the Dutch bark ship Grootmeester Nationaal captain A.T. Giesse was lying in Rotterdam. Netherlands destined for Batavia, Dutch East Indies. For more details could be asked at Ch. Cornelder&Zonen at Rotterdam and Gerard Mauritz in Dordrecht, closing date 1 April.(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 Dordrecht, measurement 755 tons and call sign NVHC. The newspaper Dagblad van Zuidholland en ‘s-Gravenhage dated 27 June 1857 published an item dated Dordrecht 24 June reporting her launching the same afternoon. The frigateship measured 400 lasten with as captain Giessen and owner J. Maurtiz&Co. The keel was laid down on 20 May during the celebration of 100-years existence of the grand loge of freemasonry and was completely paid by the freemasonry like other ships as Broedertrouw and Zwijger. For more details see the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=6060 which reported that she was built at the shipyard of Jan Schouten in Dordrecht in 1857 and in 1870 sold to Germany.
