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Sunday, 3 May 2020

Dutch screw steamship 4th class Riouw in 1880 according to the Colonial Account [Dutch East Indies] over 1881

Model NG-MC-1272 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands. Original url

Composite-built. Launched in 1872. Armed with 3 guns. Draught 3,5 metres. Horsepower 80nhp. Tonnage 322 tons. Maximum speed during a watch of 4 hours 6-7 geographic miles while under steam. Arrived on 4 August 1873 in the Dutch East Indies. The crew consisted on 31 December 1880 of 65 (fixed 74) Europeans and 23 (fixed 24) natives and she was at that moment stationed in the South and East Department of Borneo. Docked at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies 1-28 May 1880.(1)

Note
1. Call sign GQSH, composite-built, on stocks at the shipyard of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij at Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 1 April 1872, launched on 30 October 1872, commissioned on 26 April 1873, decommissioned on 16 November 1886, examined and concluded that she was not worth to be repaired, stricken on 17 April 1887 and sold on a public auction at the naval establishment at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies at 09.00 o’clock on Saturday 4 June 1887. Displacement 659 ton, dimensions 42,00 (between perpendiculars) x 9,05 x 3,60 metres, 1-90 nhp one 2-cylinder horizontal directly working standard injection steam engine, one screw, speed 7,5 knots, crew numbered 80 men and an armament of 2 medium 30 pd guns, 1 rifled 16 cm gun, changed around 1875 by 1 rifled 16cm gun and 2-12cm guns.

Source
Dutch House of Representatives. Colonial Account [Dutch East Indies] over 1881.5.8 Attachment F. Royal Netherlands Navy in the Dutch East Indies in 1880.