In an announcement was the intended auction of a Dutch bomb corvette on Friday the 27th at 10.00 o´clock reported- She was condemned an lying in the dock (Dokhaven) at Vlissingen and was to be broken up.(1)
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1. This was the Hekla, bomb corvette, building ordered on 15 April 1818 no. 6, order dated 29 May 1818 no. 9 called Hekla, on stocks at Rotterdam, Netherlands by P. Glavimans January 1819, launched 11 October 1821, commissioned 16 March 1822, decommissioned 10 August 1825, commissioned 15 February 1826, decommissioned 31 December 1829, stricken and sold at Vlissingen to J.F.C. Retsin 1830, broken up 1830-1831, dimensions 36,23 (between perpendiculars) x 1,06 x 4,53 (middle) x 5,25 (hold), 20-22 guns (20-30pd carronades, 2-6pd guns) and a crew numbering 150 men. Johannes Franciscus Carolus Retsin (4 April 1794 Kortrijk, Belgium) was vice consul for Sweden and Norway in the province Zealand, Netherlands.
