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Sunday, 9 March 2014

Wreck of Norwegian bark Express for sale at Den Helder, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Heldersche en Nieuwedieper Courant dated 29 July 1860

An announcement reported the intended auction on Thursday 9 August at 19.00 o’clock in the locality Tivoli, Den Helder of the heavily damaged hull of the Norwegian with copper bolts tightened Norwegian bark ship Express captain Hans Bruu Johannesen brought into the harbour of the Nieuwediep, the partly salvaged inventory and the cargo of timber. She measured 479 tons and was underway from Gothenburg, Sweden towards Bordeaux, France and was now lying in the Koopvaardersbinnenhaven.