An announcement reported that the bark ship Triton of 217 tons or 115 lasten was sold on Monday 15 September in the Nieuwe Stads Herberg, het IJ, Amsterdam for ƒ 8.000 to A.M. Balwé. Her captain was A.P. Duinker.(1)
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1. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 28 August 1862 published an announcement that broker A.J. Corver intended to sell on Monday 15 September at 18.00 o’clock the extra ordinary well sailing coppered and copper tightened Dutch brig ship Triton captain A.P. Duinker with the dimensions 25,80 x 5,24 x 3,55 metres and a measurement of 217 tons or 115 lasten. She was lying alongside the yard Hamburg, Kadijk, Amsterdam. For more details could be asked at the broker or ar the cargadoors Jan Corver&Co. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=3672 reported that this brig was built in 1839 at the shipyard De Drie Haringen in Amsterdam for C.E. Smit&Zn, Koog aan de Zaan, (captain between 1854-1859 A.P. Duinker) since 1859 as the Drie Gezusters property of H. van Schouwenburg, Harlingen and between 1864 and 1865 property of J. Noyon, Harlingen and in last year was she wrecked. According to the announcement was she in 1862 still called Triton.
