An announcement reported that the bark ship Grootmeester Nationaal captain A.G. Giesse was lying in Rotterdam destined towards Batavia. Well passengers accommodation. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers Ch. Cornelder&Zonen in Rotterdam and Gerard Mauritz in Dordrecht.(1)
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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 Dordrecht, call sign NVHC, bark and measurement 755 tons. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=6060 reports that she was built at shipyard of Jan Schouten, Dordrecht in 1857 for Jb. Mauritz, F. van Wageningen&G. van Oldenborgh in Dordrecht and sold to Germany in 1870. The newspaper Dagblad van Zuidholland en ‘s Gravenhage dated 27 June 1857 published an item dated Dordrecht 24 June reported her launching the same afternoon at 17.30 o’clock. She measured 400 lasten and her keel was laid down on 20 May. She was built for the Masonic lodge like other ships as the Brodertrouw and Zwijger.
