Dutch bark ship Zes Gezusters bound for Samarang, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Dagblad van Zuidholland en ‘sGravenhage dated 13 July 1869

An announcement reported that the extra fast coppered 2-decks bark ship Zes Gezusters captain R. Rutgers would depart Amsterdam second half of July directly towards Samarang. Well passenger accommodation. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers Kuyper van Dam&Smeer at Rotterdam and De Coningh&Co. at Amsterdam.(1)

Note

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. Homeport Alblasserdam, call sign QDR, bark and measurement 606 tons. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=6599 reports that she was built as Henriette in 1856 at the shipyard of Cornelis&Jan Smit in Alblasserdam, that she was renamed Zes Gezusters in 1860 and Bella in 1870.