An announcement reported the auction on Saturday 19 May at 12.30 o’clock in the tavern Nederlandsche Koffijhuis of J. Zahn at the Marktplein in Dordrecht of the extra ordinary fast in 1854 recoppered and copper fastened Dutch bark ship Sphynx. Captain G. Wigman. Dimensions 26,60 x 5,08 x 3,93 metres and measuring 263 tonnen or 139 lasten. She was lying in the Kalkhaven in Dorecht. For more details could be asked at several shipbrokers.(1)
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1. the website http://www.scheepsindex.nl/schip.php?i=5272 reports that she was built in 1846 in Dordrecht for F.&J. van Wageningen Dzn, in Dordrecht, 1856 new owner J. van Oldenborgh in Dordrecht and since 1873 owned by J.M. Meihuizen in Wildervank. In 1875 wrecked. 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. Mentioned none ship with this name. The newspaper Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 17 July 1846 published an item dated Rotterdam 15 July reporting that a day earlier at the shipyard of shipbuilder Jan Schouten in Dordrecht the bark Sphynx was launched for J. en F. van Wageningen for the Dutch East Indies trade. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 9 July 1856 published an announcement of the auction on Saturday 19 July at 12.30 o’clock in the tavern Nederlandsche Koffijhuis of J. Zahn at the Marktplein in Dordrecht of the extra ordinary fast in 1854 recoppered and copper fastened Dutch bark ship Sphynx. Captain A.A. Kruisinga. She was lying in the Vlugthaven in Rotterdam. Measurement and dimensions identical to item dated 17 May 1855. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 20 June 1874 published a tiding dated Wildervank 17 June that the sale of the Dutch bark ship Sphynx of 263 tonnen built in 1846 for ƒ 10.600 was not executed.
