An item reported that the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite (1) captain lieutenant Tengbergen, the Dutch brig Zr.Ms. Pellikaan (2) and the transport Zr.Ms. Dordrecht (3) were to support the expedition commanded by general major Verveer to the coast of Guinea.(4)
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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).
2. Pelikaan also called Pellikaan, Department Amsterdam, building ordered 15 January 1819, on stocks at navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands August 1819 by P. Schuijt jr., 11 January 1820 ordered to be completed, launched 15 June 1821, coppered 1821, order 11 February 1822 to be completed in 1822, commissioned 1 March 1823, condemned 1844,sold at Paramaribo, Surinam for ƒ 1.000, 00 to be broken up 11 June 1845,displacement 191 tons, dimensions 22,6 (load line) x 7,1 (inner hull) x 2,7 (fore)-3,4 (aft) x 3,6 (below maindeck) metres and an armament of 8 guns consisting of 6-12pd carronades and 2-6pd guns.
3. On stocks at the shipyard of Jan Schouten at Dordrecht, Netherlands 1828, launched afternoon at 16.30 o’clock (planned) 29 April 1829, docked at the navy yard of Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 1-2 April 1830& 26-12 December 1831&28 August 1832; 22-26 November 1833&7 August-1 November 1834&12-14 March 1838, 3-10 September 1838&9 November 1839-22 June 1840, 12-15 December 1841&15-19 April 1842 and 16-18 August 1843, decommissioned 15 July 1847, brought to Amsterdam, Netherlands on 22 July 1848, handed over to the Institute for sailors van de Zeil- en Roeivereniging KNZRV 1848, replaced by the former Zr.Ms. Venus in 1862was coppered, with an armament of 8 guns.
4. Dutch Gold Coast nowadays Ghana.
