Model NG-MC-1077 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands. Original url
An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship Zr. Ms. Citadel van Antwerp (1) captain G.J.P. Mossel (2) arrived that morning in the roads of Vlissingen, Netherlands returning from the Dutch East Indies. Everything was well on board. The Middelburgsche courant confirmed the arrival around 09.00 o’clock.
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1. Screw steam ship 2nd class, call sign GQFK, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands as the Dordrecht on 19 February 1856, launched 1857, renamed Citadel van Antwerpen in 1868, lengthened with 2 metres >1865-1868<, decommissioned 1 January 1878, converted into a hulk to be used during the building of a lighthouse on the Meindertsdroogte, Dutch East Indies in 1878, costs when first fitted out ƒ 517.000,00, displacement 1.780 tons, dimensions 56,00 x 11,05 x 5,40 metres, an armament of 13 guns (6 long 20pd guns, 7 rifled 16cm guns) and a crew numbering 180 men. Speed under sail more as 10 miles.
2. George Pieter Jan Mossel (26 October Amsterdam, Netherlands 1813-7 July 1900 Utrecht, Netherlands), dismissed in 1894 in the rank of rear admiral titular.
