Dutch clipper frigate Djawa bound towards Batavia and Surabaya, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 13 March 1869

An announcement reported that the Dutch clipper frigate Djawa captain R.P. Bakker was to depart Amsterdam towards Batavia and Surabaya around middle April. Well passenger accommodations on board. Further more fitted out with very large hatches for loading all kind of engines. For more details could be asked at shipbrokers De Vries&Co.(1)

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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. Not mentioned. In the edition 1870 mentioned as frigate, homeport Amsterdam, measurement 1.185 tons and call sign NMFH. The newspaper Nieuw Rotterdamsche Courant dated 19 January 1869 published an item dated Amsterdam 18 January reporting that the Djawa (former Gladstone) captain Bakker underway from London, England to the Nieuwediep, Netherlands stranded in the morning of the 17^th near Egmond, Netherlands but after unloading her ballast was towed free by a steamboat and sailed towards her destination. For more details see the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=3517 which reported that she was built in 1864 at Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada as Gladstone, renamed 1869 Djawa, 1875 Kandanghauer II and in 1879 as Obi arrived at the Bermuda’s where she was sold as a wreck.