An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands the 20th reported that the Dutch bomb corvettes Zr.Ms. Proserpina and Medusa (2) were ordered to sail upwards the Schelde and to take positions off Hoedekenskerke. The Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Suriname (3) was ordered to tow both corvettes to their positions. The Suriname was than to take a position off Bath.(4)
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1. Bomb corvette, 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.
2. Bomb corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1825 by P.Glavimans Jz.20, launched 1827, stricken 1835, 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.
3. Must be the paddle steamship, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen , Netherlands 1827, launched on 24 July 1828, broken up 1837, 810 tons displacement.
3. Paddle steamship, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen , Netherlands 1827, launched on 24 July 1828, broken up 1837, 810 tons displacement.
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.
