After the French occupation the Netherlands became an
independent kingdom and the trade shipping towards the Dutch East Indies was
gain possible. However in 1814 didn't the Dutch East Indies Company exist
anymore and what was left of her ships was sold after 1801 to private
entrepreneurs. The war between the French empire and countries like England
made it nearly continuous impossible to use these ships. In 1814 there was just
a cargo capacity of 10.000 lasten available in the Netherlands. To compensate
this ships had to be bought or build abroad, mainly in the Baltic area, England
and the United States. The Dutch government encouraged the Dutch merchant
shipping and building along with other measures with subsidies (Fonds Nationale
Nijverheid) and freights (Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij). Slowly the yards
at Rotterdam, Dordrecht but also in Middelburg and Zierikzee begun to built new
East Indiamen. An increasing number of ships was build.
Zierikzee, Thursday 2 September. Today was at the city
yard the handsome built by C. Mak bark ship Brouwershaven of 400 last launched.
She destined for the trade towards the Dutch East Indies. A steamboat was to
tow her to Alblasserdam where she was laid up to be later rigged when the Dutch
Neerlandse Handelsmaatschappij freighted her.
