Dutch bark ship Pertinax launched at Amsterdam, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated Tuesday 10 September 1861

An announcement reported that an anonymous person reported that he sighted the well iron bark ship Pertinax which was launched last Saturday at the shipyard of the shipbuilders W.&A.H. Meursing. She was painted with a newly invented anti corrossion iron enamel paint of F. Franken&Co. and the writer congratulated the inventors with this for owners of huge iron properties so important invention. The newspaper Java-bode dated 9 November 1861 published an item reporting that on 7 September at the shipyard of shipbuilders of W.&A.H. Meursing in Amsterdam the iron bark ship Pertinax of 212 lasten was launched for J. Rahder&Co., captain W.E. Hageman. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 8 September confirmed her launching at the shipyard De Nachtegaal adding that as a result of the worse weather the audience was smaller as usual. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad published an item dated Amsterdam 7 September tha she was launched the same day at 13.30 o’clock. The newspaper Nieuw Amsterdamsch handels- en effectenblad dated 29 April 1863 reported that she on 26 January while underway from Ningpo towards Amoy struck the St. Helena bank outside the Gilolopassage. Of the people on board arrived just ten survivors at Shanghai but her captain Hageman, his spouse and child, the second mate, carpenter, purser, sailor B. Koning and the ordinary seaman B.O. Petersen were killed. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 30 April 1863 published an announcement of first mate J. Serquet Niewenhuysen who thanked captain J. Henmann of the German 3mast schooner ship Meta of Bremen for looking after the survivors of the Pertinax on board of his ship. In the edition dated 1 May was an obituary published for the 26 year old second mate Barend Houghout Zijlstra and in the edition dated 29 April a obitary for captain W.E. Hageman (age 42), his spouse J. Schönecker (age 24) and their son (age 7 months).