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Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Dutch frigate Marco Bozzaris bound towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper De Opregte Haarlemsche Courant dated 11 May 1837

An announcement reported that at the end of the month the extra ordinary coppered frigate ship Marco Bozzaris captain W.H. Warnsinck Czn was to depart Amsterdam bound for Batavia. A well suited cabin for passengers was available. For more details could be asked at shipbroker Floris der Kinderen in Amsterdam.(1)

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1. The newspaper Opregte Haarlemsche Courant dated 15 July 1826 reported that’s he was sighted while underway from Amsterdam towards Batavia captain J.G. Adriaan.
The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 11 September 1833 reported that on an auction on Monday 9 September 1833 in the Nieuwe Stads Herberg in Amsterdam of 1/8 part in the coppered frigate ship Marco Bozzaris captain J.G. Adriaan for ƒ 2.050, first stroke ƒ 2.000 to J. Kooy.
According tot the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=9483 was she in 1825 built at the shipyard De Drie Haringen in Amsterdam with a tonnage of 376 tons and was she wrecked in 1852 between Newcastle and Havana. Between 1826 and owned was she property of M. Udink&Co in Amsterdam and since then until her loss owned by Barend Kooy Hzn. In Amsterdam. The website
http://www.spanvis.nl/Nederlandse%20zeilschepen/Scheepsnamen/Marco%20Bozzaris.htm reported that she was owned by M. Udink&Co. in Rotterdam with as dimensions 28,80 x 6,25 x 4,27 metres, a tonnage of 202-391 lasten and that her sale in the Nieuwe Stadsherberg in Amsterdam during an auction on 28 May 1844 for ƒ 17.900 not was executed. Later that year she was sold to B. Kooij Jzn. in Amsterdam. The Dutch newspaper Opregte Haarlemsche Courant dated 21 May 1844 published an announcement of the auction on Tuesday 28 May at 18.00 o’clock in which she was described as an extra ordinary well sailing coppered and copper fastened bark ship captain P. de Boer of 202 lasten and as dimensions 28,80 x 6,25 x 4,4 metres. The Dutch newspaper Journal de la province Limbourg dated 29 April 1825 confirmed that she was built at Amsterdam.