An item reported the arrival of the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Metalen Kruis (1) captain H.B. Kip at Falmouth, England on 9 April 1873 to bunker coal underway towards the Dutch East Indies. Everything was well on board.
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1. Screw steamship 1st class also called frigate, call sign GQNT, wood-built, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam on 21 March 1860, launched on 29 July 1862, ex-Soerabaja renamed in 1863, commissioned on 17 September 1863, building costs ƒ 752.588,82, decommissioned and condemned at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies on 20 September 1878, dimensions 58,00 (between perpendiculars) x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, a displacement of 2.030 tons, horsepower 700 hp, speed 8,5 knots, an armament of 16 guns (8 long 30pd, 8 rifled 16cm) and a crew numbering 225 men.
