An item referred to a tiding
from Menado, Moluccas that she was lost on 16
May by fire while lying on the roads of Kema. She arrived there on the 14th
during her cruising voyage in the Moluccas to
load quine [quinine] and refreshments for her crew of which many suffered from
fever. Her commanding officer was captain lieutenant H. Wipff. In the night of
the 15th-16th was in the bottling room a fire discovered.
Although all efforts done to extinguish the fire was it at 6.00 o’clock clear
that the battle was lost. All personal properties of the crewmembers and main
part of the ships’ inventory was lost. The crew was afterwards praised for
their excellent behaviour during the disaster. Lieutenant 2nd class
jhr. N.A. Holmberg de Beckfelt saved the unconscious officers cook lying
between decks. On the place where she sunk was a buoy placed to warn passing
ships.
Note
1. Laid down at the navy yard at Rotterdam on 26 October 1842 and launched in
the afternoon of 18 May 1848 (newspaper Opregte Haarlemsche Courant dated the
20th) and brought on 18 August to the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis.
Commissioned om 1 May 1849. With a displacement of 943 tons and as dimensions
40 x 12,30 metres.
The armament consisted of 26 guns. ‘Kuilkorvette‘. The archive of the Navy
Shipyard Hellevoetsluis no. 509 (Nationaal Archive The Hague) called her
Sumatraan and that she docked on 9 October 1848 in the so-called keel
dock for her copper doubling and undocked on the 23rd.
