An item reported that the N.H.M. hired the Dutch ship Pieter captain Hoogewerff to transport from St. George d‘Elmina [Dutch Gold Coast=Ghana] towards Java, Dutch East Indies the African military [negroes].(1)
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1. Frigate, captain H. Hoogewerff, owned by P. Varkevisser en Zonen, tonnage 748 ton, built 1857 and homeport Rotterdam, Netherlands. Source Staat der Nederlandsche Zeemagt en Koopvaardij-vloot op 1 Januarij 1864
