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Friday, 31 May 2019

Dutch screw steamship 4th class Vecht bound for the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Heldersche en Nieuwedieper Courant dated 27 December 1860

An item reported that the at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands lying Dutch screw steamship 4th class Vecht was to be commissioned on 16 January 1861 under lieutenant 1st class H.A. Modderman bound for the Dutch East Indies.(1)

Note
1. Screw steamship 4th class, built 1859-1860 by D. Borkus, Gouda, Netherlands, stricken 1865, dimensions 38,00 x 8,16 x 3,20 metres, displacement 586 tons, an armament of 6 guns and a crew numbering 85 men.