An announcement reported that the well known fast Dutch campagne clipper frigate ship India Packet captain G. Diepering would depart Amsterdam towards Batavia end June. Well passenger accommodation, skilled doctor and milk cow on board. Would take no cargo of coal. For more details could be asked at owners Kuinders&Co., Heerengracht near Vijzelstraat X 403 and shipbrokers Wed. Jan van Wesel&Zoon, Lalkmarkt U 191.(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. Homeport Amsterdam, 3-mast ship, measurement 758 tons and call sign PCKM. The website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=6238 reports that she was built in 1861 at the shipyard of Cornelis&Jan Smit at Alblasserdam, renamed 1882 Heemse and lost in 1893. The newspaper Nieuw Amsterdamsch handels- en effectible dated 2 September 1861 published an item dated Alblasserdam 31 August that the same day at the ward of shipbuilder J. Smit Cz. the clipper frigate ship India Packet of 400 lasten was launched fro Gebr. Hendrichs&Co. and as captain G. Diepering.
