An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Zoutman would depart on the 5th from Texel, Netherlands towards Curacao.(1)
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1. Screw steamship 1st class, call sign GRDH, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 15 November 1859, launched in the afternoon of 20 September 1861 and condemned/stricken in 1871. Wood-built. Displacement 2.030 tons, as dimensions 58,00-62,84 x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, horsepower of 250 hp, a crew numbering 250 men and an armament consisting of 8 long 30 pd guns and 8-16 cm rifled guns. Her engines seemed in 1874 to be used for the Zr.Ms. Van Galen.
