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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Dutch schooner brig Zr.Ms. Ternate departed Curacao towards Surinam according to the Dutch newspaper De Curacaosche courant dated 4 January 1851

An item reported the departure from Willemstad, Curacao on Sunday 29th December 1850 of the Dutch schooner brig Zr.Ms. Ternate lieutenant 1st class Jhr. H.J.L.T. de Vaynes van Brakell via de islands St. Eustatius and St. Martin/St. Maarten towards Surinam.(1)

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1. Brigantine/schooner brig, wood-built, on stocks at navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands June 1846, launched 1849, docked at the navy yard of Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 25 October-7 December 1852 and 16-19 May 1859, training ship 1876, stricken 1893, condemned 1904, dimensions 28,50 x 8,70 x 3,30 metres, 252 tons displacement, an armament of 4 (1877: medium:30-pd guns)-6 guns and a crew numbering 96 men (1 October 1877).