An item reported that the N.H.M. hired the Dutch ship Noach captain Van Schelven to transport a detachment soldiers of 153 men from the Netherlands towards Java, Dutch East Indies. They would embark on 11 December. (1)
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1. Source Staat der Nederlandsche Zeemagt en Koopvaardij-vloot op 1 Januarij 1864 mentioned a clipper frigate Noach, captain J. Duinker, Rotterdam no. 152-flagged, owned by Fop Smit. Tonnage 892 tons, built in 1857 and homeport Kinderdijk, Netherlands.
