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Sunday 21 October 2012

Dutch clipper brig ship Rio de la Plata bound for Surabaya, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 25 March 1869

An announcement reported that the fast newly coppered 400 tons clipper brig ship Rio de la Plata captain P. Remmers was to depart Rotterdam on very short notice directly towards Surabaja. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers Vroege&De Wijs. The edition dated 11 May published another announcement. She was still lying in the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam with as closing date 15 May.(1)

Note
1. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1867. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1867. Brig, homeport Delfshaven, measurement 254 ton and call sign PRJM. The Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 30 May 1867 published an item dated Kinderdijk 29 May that the same day at the shipyard of Gebr. B. Pot this clipper brig ship of circa 260 tons was launched of P. Rademakers&Co. in Delfshaven and captain A.F.A. Hörner.