Dutch warships Zr.Ms. Euridice, Curacao and Proserpina and gunboats taking position on the Schelde according to the Dutch newspaper Goesssche Courant dated 7 December 1832

An item dated Dordrecht, Netherlands the 3rd reported that on Saturday morning the Dutch frigate Zr.Ms. Euridice (1) commanded by rear admiral Lewe van Aduard towed upstream, by the steamboat Zr.Ms. Curacaco (2) to a position off St. Marie joining the Dutch corvette Proserpina (3). Further more sailed a Dutch division of gunboats the Schelde upstream.(4)

Notes
1. In December 1801 laid down by P. Glavimans at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands and launched on 21 April 1802, since 1835 guard ship at Vlissingen, Netherlands until 1843 and in 1847 sold to be broken up. Dimensions 145’ x 40’ x 15‘ (probably the Amsterdam feet= 0,2831 metres. The armament consisted of 32.
2. Built in 1825 at Dover as the Calpe for the American and Colonial Steam Navigation Company, purchased in 1826 by the Dutch government and in 1846 sold to be broken up. Displacement 42 tons. Horsepower 106 hp and speed 8 knots.
3. Bomb corvette, Department Rotterdam, on stocks at navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands by P.Glavimans Jz.20 May 1818, launched 11 October 1821, stricken >1835-1836<, dimensions 36,23 (loadline) x 10,06 (inner hull) x ,25 (fore)-4,81 (aft) x 5,25 (depth below maindeck) and an armament of 2-29”mortars, 20-12pd carronades, 2-6pd guns. If these corvettes were not fitted out with mortars consisted the armament of 20-30pd carronades and 2-6pd guns.
4. On 25 August 1830 started a revolt in what afterwards become the independent kingdom of Belgium but at that moment since 1815 still part of the kingdom of the Netherlands. On 4 October 1830 declared the Belgians their independence, on 21 July 1831 was their first king installed. Not earlier as in 1839 accepted the Netherlands the consequences (Treaty of London). France and England supported the Belgians in their desire for independence.