An item reported that the fast newly built bark ship Maria Susanna Hendrika captain C.J. Berghuis was to depart middle August Depart towards the Netherlands. Excellent passenger accommodation. For more details could be asked at the captain at Samarang or Am. Meijer&Co. in Surabaya.(1)
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1. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche courant dated 17 June 1846 reported that on an auction on Monday 15 June in Amsterdam she was sold for ƒ 36.00+13.000(?) to H.J. Rietveld captain S. Nielsen. Described as coppered. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 18 March 1846 reported that on an auction on Monday 16 March in the Nieuwe Stads Herberg, het IJ in Amsterdam 1/32 share was sold for ƒ 1.325 to J. Corver. Captain S. Nielsen. Measurement 255 lasten. The newspaper De Avondbode dated 11 December 1839 called her a new built, coppered and 2-decks bark ship which was to depart the same month from Amsterdam. Captain J.C. Berghuis. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 12 July 1839 published an item dated Amsterdam Thursday 11 July that the same afternoon at 14.30 o’clock of the shipyard de Koning William by the shipbuilder C.E. Duyts C.Zn. The ship Maria Susanna Hendrika of around 400 Java lasten was launched captain C.J. Berghuis. 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).
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1. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche courant dated 17 June 1846 reported that on an auction on Monday 15 June in Amsterdam she was sold for ƒ 36.00+13.000(?) to H.J. Rietveld captain S. Nielsen. Described as coppered. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 18 March 1846 reported that on an auction on Monday 16 March in the Nieuwe Stads Herberg, het IJ in Amsterdam 1/32 share was sold for ƒ 1.325 to J. Corver. Captain S. Nielsen. Measurement 255 lasten. The newspaper De Avondbode dated 11 December 1839 called her a new built, coppered and 2-decks bark ship which was to depart the same month from Amsterdam. Captain J.C. Berghuis. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 12 July 1839 published an item dated Amsterdam Thursday 11 July that the same afternoon at 14.30 o’clock of the shipyard de Koning William by the shipbuilder C.E. Duyts C.Zn. The ship Maria Susanna Hendrika of around 400 Java lasten was launched captain C.J. Berghuis. 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).
