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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij (N.H.M.) hired Dutch bark Drie Gebroeders as troop transport according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode 20 August 1862

An item reported that the N.H.M. hired the Dutch ship Drie Gebroeders captain Kramer to transport a detachment of 125 military and 5 cabin passengers from the Netherlands towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies to embark on 2 August. To them would probably 10 non-commissioned officers added.(1)

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1. Bark, captain J. van Tubergen (earlier Kramer), owned by Fredrik Smelt en Zonen, tonnage 525 tons, built 1850, homeport Amsterdam, Netherlands. Source Staat der Nederlandsche Zeemagt en Koopvaardij-vloot op 1 Januarij 1864.