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Thursday, 17 July 2014

Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (N.H.M.) hired Dutch bark Vier Gebroeders as troop transport according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 7 June 1862

An item reported that the N.H.M. hired the Dutch ship Vier Gebroeders captain Bik to transport 150 military and 4-5 cabin passengers from the Netherlands towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. Bark, captain J.C. Bunk, Rotterdam no. 266-flagged, owned by Fop Smit, tonnage 637 tons, built in 1846 and homeport Kinderdijk, Netherlands. Source Staat der Nederlandsche Zeemagt en Koopvaardij-vloot op 1 Januarij 1864.