Dutch frigate ship Walvisch launched in Amsterdam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Dagblad van ‘s-Gravenhage dated Friday 3 April 1840

An item reported that last Tuesday afternoon at the shipyard de Walvisch in the Groote Bikkerstraat, Amsterdam shipbuilder Jan Nuveen launched the frigate ship de Walvisch for B.W. van Straten captain Jan Schut for the Dutch East Indies trade.