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Friday, 14 August 2015

Dutch frigate Zr.Ms. Sambre and schooner brig Zr.Ms. Lansier returning from the Dutch East Indies towards the Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 26 February 1850

An item reported the departure on 16 December 1849 of the Dutch frigate Zr.Ms. Sambre (1) captain Ferguson and the schooner brig Lancier (2) lieutenant 1st class Dittlof Tjassens from Batavia, Dutch East Indies towards the Netherlands.

Notes
1. The former Algiers, frigate 2nd class, on stocks at naval yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands June 1818, launched 27 August 1821, coppered 1821, renamed Sambre 1828, guard ship at Willemsoord, Netherlands 1850, guard ship at Vlissingen, Netherlands, stricken 1866, efforts to sell her in 1867 failed and decided to break her up at the navy yard there, with a 1461 tons deplacement and an armament of 44 guns.
2.  Lansier or Lancier, brigantine, on stocks at Amsterdam, Netherlands 22 March 1824, , launched on Thursday 3 August 1843, rebuilt as floating battery in the Dutch East Indies, sold at the navy yard Onrust, Dutch East Indies in August 1860, dimensions 28,50m x 8,70m x ?, 252 tons displacement and an armament of 6 guns. In the newspaper Bataviasche handelsblad dated 4 August 1860 was the auction by John Price&Co. of the schooner brig Lancier at the navy yard on 09,30 o’clock on Tuesday 14 August announced. She was at that moment lying at Onrust, Dutch East Indies.