An item dated Amsterdam Saturday 17 October reported that the same day at the shipyard Concordia of Meursing&Huijgens the keel was laid down of the frigate ship Maibit (1) of 600 measured or 800 Javalasten (2) for Rutgers&Hissink in Amsterdam.
Notes
1. Lijst van de Nederlandsche oorlog- en koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidings-seinen 1875. Frigate, call sign PKBW, homeport Amsterdammeasuremen 1.154 tons.
2. 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).
