An item referred to a tiding from Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands reported that presumably on 1 April the Dutch screw steamship Zr.Ms. Dommel was depart from there to the Dutch West Indies.(1)
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1. Screw steamship 4th class, call sign GQHS, building ordered on 27 June 1859, on stocks at the shipyard of G.W. Uit den Bogaert, Maassluis, Netherlands in July, launched on 26 May 1860, commissioned on 10 March 1861, building costs ƒ 228.629,76½ (tender was ƒ 203.885,-), building supervised by A.J.H. Beeloo and L.C.P.W. Visser, docked at the dry dock at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands 30 January-7 February 1863, 8 July-1 August 1865, 23 September-29 December 1865, 9-23 October 1867, 23 March-5 June 1868, 11-17 September 1869 and 1-23 June 1870, not longer mentioned on the navy list since 1 January 1872, dimensions 38,00-40,00m (over all) x 8,16 x 3,20 metres, 586 tons displacement, an armament of 6 guns, a crew numbering 75 men, a horsepower of 80 npk/200 epk horsepower and a 6-7 knots speed.
