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Friday, 24 July 2020

Dutch bark Jan Pieterszoon Koen bound for the USA according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 26 March 1887

An item reported that the Dutch bark ship Jan Pieterszoon Koen (1) captain G. Spanjer of De Groof&Co., Vlissingen, Netherlands was lying at Rotterdam, Netherlands ready for departure towards Philadelphia, USA with a cargo of iron and empty barrels.

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1. Bought in 1887. Lijst van de Nederlandsche Oorlogs- en koopvaardijschepen met hunne onderscheidingsseinen uit het Internationaal Seinboek ten dienste van alle Natiën. Rotterdam, 1890. Callsign PDKL. Net tonnage 1.912,43 cubic metres or 675,08 tons of 2,83 cubic metres.