Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite bound for Surinam according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 11 April 1839

Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands

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An item dated Middelburg, Netherlands the 10th reported that in April the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite (1)captain lieutenant Tengbergen would leave Nieuwediep, Netherlands towards Surinam with on board rear admiral J.C. Rijk which was appointed as governor-general for the Dutch West Indies.

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1. Flush-decked corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands by C. Soetermeer 1827, launched 22 June 1830, commissioned 16 August 1830, reduced to 20-gun ‘kuil’-corvette 1837, decommissioned November-December 1851 at Curacao due to worse condition and not able to return homewards, sold to be broken up at Curacao 13 April 1852, with as dimensions 39 (between perpendiculars) x 10,5 (inner hull) x 4,10 (fore)-4,70 (aft) x 5,37 (hold below deck) metres and a displacement of <850 tons, an armament consisted of 18 short 30pd guns and 2-12pd guns after 1837 and a crew numbering 300 men (1830).