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Sunday, 2 November 2014

German steam corvette SMS Moltke visited Nieuwediep, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad dated 31 July 1895

An item reported that the Dutch vice admiral C.E. Uhlenbeck director and commanding officer of the navy at Nieuwediep, Netherlands a day earlier received the officers of the German warship Moltke together with some Dutch senior officers for a diner at his house.(1) During the diner was the Dutch navy staff music corps responsible for the entertainment. On the 31st was a diner planned on board of the guard ship.

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1. Flush deck corvette, laid down at the Imperial Dockyard at Danzig in 1875, launched on 18 October 1877, commissioned on 16 April 1878, used for training sea cadets since 1891, stricken on 24 October 1910, used as submarine tender Acheron stationed at Kiel, Germany since 28 October 1911 and finally sold on 7 July 1920 to the submarine administration to be rebuilt which was however never executed and finally broken up.