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Saturday, 11 July 2020

Dutch and foreign war- and merchant ships anchored off Batavia 13 February 1837 according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 2 July 1838

Gemeentearchief Vlissingen 414.487. Original source

Dutch warships Zr.Ms. brig Orestes and frigate Diana(1).
Dutch civil schooner Postillon.
Dutch merchant ships Oost-Indiën, Zaanstroom, Provincie Groningen en Kolonel Koopman, brigs Adrianus en Jacobus, Sophie and Noord and the barks Indiana and Pollux.
American ships Mandarin, Courier, Luconia and Calumet.
British ship Alexander Johnston.
Swedish brigs Carl&Robert and Carolina.
Spanish brig la Narusa.
Portuguese ship Cesar.

Note
1. Designed by sir John Henslew as part of the Artois-class which class was approved on 2 March 1793. Her building at the shipyard of Randall&Co. te Rotherhithe, England was ordered on 28 March and she was laid down the same month, launched on 3 March 1794, commissioned 6 June at the navy yard at Deptford. Building costs+for the first time fitted out 21.991 pond. Armed with 38 guns. Dimensions 121’8½”(keel)-146‘3“(gundeck) x 39’1½” x 13’0” and a measurement of 999 43/54 tons. Laid up in 1812 at Plymouth, England. Between March 1813 and September 1814 large repairs at the shipyard of Isaac Blackburn, Turnchapel, England. Sold in 1815 to the Netherlands for 36.796 pond. In 1838 lying dry docked at Willemsoord, Netherlands heavily damaged when fire broke out on board and sold to be broken up.