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Sunday 21 October 2012

Dutch clipper ship Insulinde bound for Batavia according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 4 April 1869

An announcement reported that the fast Dutch 1.250 tons 1st class clipper ship Insulinde captain J.H. Tollie was to depart Amsterdam end April destined towards Batavia . Well passenger accommodations, skilled doctor and milk cow.(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 977 tons and call sign PCLH. The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 31 July 1864 published an item dated Amsterdam Saturday 29 July that the same afternoon at 13.30 o’clock she was launched at the shipyard ‘t Fortuin of the shipbuilder F.F. Groen for Gebr. Hendrichs(Co. of 500 measured lasten with captain P.P. Duinker jr.