An item reported that the fast bark ship Proteus captain Floris Guijt jr was to depart end January 1841 towards the Netherlands. With excellent passenger accommodation and a skilled doctor on board. For more details could be asked at the captain in Surabaya or Voute&Guerin in Batavia.(1)
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1. In the same edition was a announcement published asking a sum of ƒ 16.000-18.000 needed for paying repairs. In the edition dated 14 November it was reported that when she arrived at Batavia her cargo included 600 boxes gin and ten chests with medicins. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 13 June reported that’s she was to depart from Rotterdam bound for Batavia on 25 June. She was coppered. For more details could be asked at Kuyper, Van Dam&Smeer in Rotterdam or De Groot, Roelants&Co. in Schiedam. The newspaper Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 20 June 1838 reported that on Saturday the 16th at the shipyard de Nijverheid the shipbuilders C. Gips en Zonen the bark ship Proteus launched for de Groot Roelants&Co., captain H.H. Deuling for the Dutch East Indies trade.
