An item dated Amsterdam Saturday 17 October reported that the same day at the shipyard Concordia of Meursing&Huijgens the frigate ship Baron van Pallandt van Rosendaal of circa 750 measured or 1.000 Java lasten was launched for Huijgens&Hardenberg in The Hague and captain G.H. Holtgreve.(1)
Note
1. In 1826 was the standard to calculate the cargo capacity of a ship the so-called roggelast (rogge=rye) of 2.075 kilo’s. In 1827 made the Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij a list of all colonial products with their weights corresponding with the space needed for one roggelast. This became known as the Java last. For instance the weight of a Java last tea was 1.000 kilo, of pepper 1.600, of rice 2.000 and of coffee 1.500 kilo (in the practice in fact 1.800).
