The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 31 January published an item dated Middelburg th29th reported that the dock was now empty after the departure of the 3-mastship Vice Admiraal May. The next morning was she to be replaced by the Zuid-Holland.
The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 23 March published an item dated Middelburg the 23rd reporting that the same day two ships together were docked namely the Professor v.d. Boon Mesch and Riga. The Nicolette was waiting to be docked.
The newspaper Goessche Courant dated 2 April published an item dated Middelburg 31 March reported that now the steamship Drenthe of the Rotterdamsche Lloyd now was docked. After her was the Burgemeester Schorer to be docked, This latter ship was now being built at the yard of the Commercie Compagnie and which was probably the be launched in the middle of May. The newspaper Nieuwe Goessche Courant dated 18 April published an item dated Middelburg the 17th reporting her launching the next day around 15.00 o’clock at the shipyard Middelburg’s Welvaren and than afterwards would she be docked.
The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 26 June published an item dated Middelburg 23 June reporting that bark ship Luctor et Emergo left the dry dock. She was replaced by the bark ship Stad Middelburg also property of the Dutch shipping company den Bouwmeester, Borsius en van der Leije.
The newspaper GoesscheCourant dated 22 August published an item dated Middelburg 21 August reporting that at 16.00 o’clock the steamboat arrived coming from Rotterdam to be docked. The Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 5 September published an item dated Middelburg the 3rd that the steamship Ariadne master Gruijter arrived the same afternoon coming from Rotterdan and was here docked. The same morning left the Drenthe the dock and went to Rotterdam. She was used in the Dutch East Indies trade shipping.
The newspaper Goessche Courant dated 21 September reported the arrival the same afternoon of the British bark ship King of Algeria master Currie coming from Antwerp to be docked. The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 24 September published an item dated Middelburg the 22nd that the 3-master King of Algeria master Currie of Quebec which arrived the Friday before coming from Antwerp was that morning docked to be inspected and coppered.
The drydock anno 2013
The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode dated 5 October published an item dated Middelburg dated the 2nd reporting that the steamship Overijssel of the Rotterdamsche Lloyd left the same morning the dock and that she was replaced by the steamship Stad Middelburg of the Maatschappij Zeeland.
The newspaper Goessche Courant dated 12 October reported that it was the mail steamboat Stad Vlissingen which left in the morning the day before the dock. She was replaced by the frigateship Minister Fransen Van de Putte with a measurement of 1.436 last. The newspaper Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode confirmed that it was the Stad Vlissingen which left the 10th the dry dock after undergoing repairs. She was used on the England trade shipping.
According to an annual account published in the newspaper Het Zuiden dated 9 January 1879 were in 1878 31 ships docked at Middelburg.
