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Saturday, 22 November 2014

Dutch screw steamship Zr.Ms. Bali returning in the Netherlands coming from the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche courant dated 21 March 1863

An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship Zr.Ms. Bali lieutenant 1st class A.L. Palm arrived a day earlier at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands returning from the Dutch East Indies.(1)

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1. Screw steamship 3rd class, call sign GQCR, laid down at the shipyard of F. Smit, Kinderdijk, Netherlands September 1855, launched 8 October 1856, docked at the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 8-13 may 1857, 28 April 1863-6 September 1864 and 5-9 August 1865, condemned and sold to be broken up 1877, displacement 620 tons, dimensions 38,00 (over all) x 8,74 x 3,90 metres, horsepower 100 nhp supplied by engines manufactured by Fijenoord, an armament of 10 guns (2 light 12pd guns, 8-30pd carronades) and a crew numbering 85 men.