An item reported that according to the latest tidings dating before 15 October the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Metalen Kruis (1) captain lieutenant A.L. Palm (2) was being repaired at the naval establishment at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies and fitted out for the homeward bound voyage towards the Netherlands.
Notes
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.
2. Aart Lodewijk Palm (21 November 1822 Surabaya, Dutch East Indies-27 July 1893 The Hague, Netherlands), retired in the rank of captain lieutenant.
