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Thursday, 8 May 2014

Dutch screw steamship 4th class Zr.Ms. Haarlemmermeer bound for the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Heldersche en Nieuwedieper Courant dated 2 August 1860

An item reported that according to a royal decision dated 26 July no. 60 the Dutch screw steam flotilla vessel Zr.Ms. Haarlemmermeer was to be commissioned on 16 August bound for the Dutch East Indies. Lying at Vlissingen, Netherlands commanded by lieutenant 1st class P. Koning.(1)

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1. Screw steamship 4th class, Netherlands, on stocks at naval yard at Flushing, Netherlands 9 July 1859, launched in the afternoon of 23 March 1860, condemned/sold 1870, dimensions 38,00-40,70 x 8,16 x 3,20 metres, 586 tons displacement, 6 guns (4-30pond medium guns, 2-16: rifled guns), 75 men, 80/200 nph horsepower, 6-7 knots speed.