An announcement reported that the Dutch ship Arij Scheffer captain G. Kunst was departing towards the Netherlands. For more details could be asked at agents Van den Broek&Veeckens.(1)
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According to the website http://www.zeemansleed.nl/?p=1411 built in 1857 at the Midleton Shipyard, Smith&Rodgers in Belfast. In his Memoriaal van de Marine at Amsterdam (1876-1880) published B.J. Tideman a list of Dutch seagoing steamships under Dutch flag on 1 January 1876. Ary Scheffer, C. Balguerie&Zn., at Glasgow, line Netherlands-Le Havre, 391 tons, dimensions 47,50 (prow-prow) x 7,90 x 4,00 x 1,30 (fore unloaded and without coal)/3,10 (fore loaded and with coal)-2,76 (aft unloaded and without coal)/3,70 (aft loaded and with coal) metres, displacement 800 tons, cargo capacity 420 ‘weight’ tons and 721 tons of 1.5 cubic metres, coal bunker capacity 64 tons, speed 8 knots, travelling time single trip 1¼ day, coal consumption 7 tons. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en Koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen, uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1876. Improved with latest information until 1 April 1876. Schooner steamship, homeport Rotterdam, call sign NFVR, net cargo capacity tons, 80 hp. The Dutch newspaper Amsterdammer dated 13 March 1883 published an item dated London 12 March that the steamship Ary Scheffer of Rotterdam sunk off South Foreland. Of her crew arrived ten men safe at Dover, England. Her captain, first engineer, purses and a sailor drowned. The Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated the 15th reported that her crew arrived at Amsterdam. They stated that her captain Timmermans refused to leave the ship and that some of the men left the life boat again to join him and were also drowned. The Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated the 14th reported that she sunk off North Foreland underway from Le Havre towards Rotterdam. Nine men of her crew were brought with a British steamboat towards Dover. Killed were her captain, first engineer, the purser and two sailors.
