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Thursday 26 December 2019

Dutch bark ship Theodorus arrived at Mobile, USA coming from Greenock, Scotland according to the Dutch newspaper Middelbursche Courant dated 15 June 1891

An item reported that the Dutch bark ship Theodorus (1) captain G. Bruijn of De Groof&Co., Vlissingen, Netherlands arrived that day at Mobile, USA coming from Greenock, Scotland. Everything was well on board.

Note
1. The Middelburgsche Courant dated Saturday 8 July 1893 reported that the Theodorus was yet not sold on the auction last Wednesday at Rotterdam, Netherlands for the price of ƒ 21.000. She measured 924 tons and was built in 1851. The newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 23 June 1893 published an announcement of an auction on Wednesday 5 July in the locality Pro Patria, Scheepmakershaven no.. 29, Rotterdam, Netherlands of a fast iron built bark ship Theodorus with as dimensions 66,54 x 9 x 19,80 (?) metres and measuring net 921 81/100 tons. She was at that moment lying at the shipyard of Bonn&Mees at Rotterdam, Netherlands. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1892. Callsign PTNC. Net tonnage 923,93 tons of 2,83 cubic metres.