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Thursday, 2 June 2016

American screw steamship USS Enterprise visited the Netherlands according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1893-1896 no. 6

An item reported that arrival of the American screw steamship USS Enterprise captain lieutenant M. Calla on 2 October at Ijmuiden, Netherlands and her departure the next day towards Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was launched in 1874, a displacement of 1.375 tons, 800 hp horsepower and an armament consisting of 1-8” gun, 4-9” guns and 1-60pd gun. On the 10th she departed via the Noordzee kanaal.(1)

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1. Launched by John W. Griffiths at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, USA on 13 June 1984, commissioned on 16 March 1877, decommissioned on 4 May 1909 and sold on 1 October 1909.