An announcement reported that the 400 tons clipper brig ship Professor Suringar captain H.P. Kluit was lying in Amsterdam destined towards Kanagawa and Decima and possible via Osaka (Hiogo). For more details could be asked at shipbrokers De Coningh&Co. in Amsterdam and P.A. van Es&Co. in Rotterdam.(1)
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1. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=11585 reported that she was built at the shipyard of Gebr. Schutte, Amsterdam in 1857 for P. Carst Jzn., Amsterdam, since 1862 property of P.A. v.d. Drift, Alkmaar and in 1871 sold to England and in the same year renamed Joseph. 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 Alkmaar, brig, measurement 282 tons and call sign PQSC. The Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 13 June 1857 published an item dated Amsterdam 12 June that the same day at the shipyard of Gebrs. Schutte the iron built clipper brig of 150 measured lasten was launched for P. Carst Jansz. Captain J.H. Sneltjes.
