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Sunday 10 March 2013

Dutch ship Gouverneur van Swieten bound for Japan according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 10 December 1860

An announcement reported that at Rotterdam was lying the Duch ship Gouverneur van Swieten bound for Decima and Kanagawa. For more details could be asked at owner H. van Rijckevorsel (1) and ship brookers Kuyper, van Dam&Smeer at Rotterdam, Coningh&Co. at Amsterdam and Murk Lels at Alblasserdam.

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1. Huibert van Rijckevorsel (23 October 1813 Rotterdam-19 January 1866 Préfargier) merchant-ship owner, major financer of the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant of which he was president-commissioner Married on 23 October to Elise Susanne Marie Schmidt (1821-1893). Consul for Venezuela in Rotterdam since 1851 and consul general for Costa Rica in the Netherlands since 1854.