An news item dated The Hague 19 May reported that yesterday afternoon at 14.00 o’clock at the shipyard de Walvisch at Amsterdam by shipbuilder Jan Nuveen the bark ship Plancius (1) was launched for Jacob Hartsen captain S.J. Rotgans for the Dutch East Indies trade.
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1. The website http://home.hccnet.nl/l.lamers/Dall/Wagner.html supplies more details about this ship which became later the Iris and Celeritas.
