An item reported the departure from Willemstad, Curacao on Tuesday the 1st of the Dutch transport Zr.Ms. Dordrecht lieutenant 1st class C. van der Hart towards Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands. On board was jhr. Mr. I.J. Rammelman Elsevier authority of the colony Curacao but temporarily returning for one year to the Netherlands. She left Hellevoetsluis on 2nd February accompanied by around 70 merchant ships, entered Downs, England due to contrary winds on the 6th, left the 7th. Entered Falmouth, England the 10th, left the 13th, arrived on the river Suriname 13th March, before Paramaribo on the 14h and left there on the 27th.(1)
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1. 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 1862, was coppered, with an armament of 8 guns.
