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Sunday, 24 November 2019

Dutch steamship Zr. Ms. Ardjoeno available for service according to the Dutch newspaper Nederlandsche staatscourant dated 1 June 1866

An item referred to a tiding dated 14 April 1866 supplying more details dealing with the activities of the ships belonging to the Dutch squadron in the Dutch East Indies. The Dutch steamship Zr. Ms. Ardjoeno (1) lieutenant 1st class H.B. Kip was available for service.

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1. Steam warship, call sign GQCK, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands as Pluto on 4 February 1848, launched on 1 or 2 September 1849, renamed Ardjoeno in December 1849, engines manufactured by the N.S.M. (decided 26 August 1847 for ƒ 210.979,00 to deliver on 15 March 1849), trial on 28 April 1850, departed on 28 December 1850 towards the Dutch East Indies, arrived there on 26 May 1851, docked at the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands between 28 March-8 June 1854, transferred to the Dutch East Indies Military Navy on 1 January 1868, stricken in 1873, dimensions 56,00 x 10,70 x 4,80 metres, displacement 1.486 tons and a horsepower of 300 hp.