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Sunday, 7 December 2014

Dutch screw steam ship 3rd class Zr.Ms. Bali arrived in England according to the Dutch newspaper De Tijd dated 10 September 1863

An item reported the safe arrival in the afternoon of the 6th of the Dutch screw steam ship Zr.Ms. Bali lieutenant 1st class H.G. Hildebrandt at Dartmouth, England. Everything was well on board.(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.