Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
An item dated Middelburg the 25th reported that on the 21st the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Proserpina (1) and on the 23rd the frigate Euridice (2) sailed upstream the Schelde. On the 21st steam also the steamboat Beurs of Amsterdam (3) upstream the Schelde. The Dutch bomb corvette Zr.Ms. Medusa (4) left on Saturday the Dokhaven at Vlissingen and the steamboat Zr.Ms. Suriname (5) would leave that day the Dokhaven, both ships destined to go upstream the Schelde.
Notes
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Paddle steamship, belonged to Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Mij, built at Maudslay, London, England 1826, hired 1832-1833, gross register tonnage 525 tons and 120 nhp horsepower.
4. Bomb corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1825 by P.Glavimans Jz.20, launched 1827, stricken 1835, broken up 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.
5. Paddle steamship, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen , Netherlands 1827, launched on 24 July 1828, broken up 1837, 810 tons displacement.
