Order administration registered on 7 August 1878 the order for delivering a steam- and manual steering gear manufactured by Row McLachlan&Co., Paisley, Scotland for the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Tromp for ƒ 2.090. Totally actual costs ƒ 14.684,99 (price gear including freight costs ƒ 7.687,79, stores ƒ 2.065,55, cash ƒ 1.271,49, labour ƒ 2.287,60, 60% expenses ƒ 1.372,56) resulting in a profit of ƒ 6.215, 01.(1)
Note
1. screw steamship 1st class, call sign GQWN, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 23 August 1875, launched on 12 December 1877, commissioned on 30 May 1879, decommissioned on 5 June 1902, stricken in 1904 and sold to be broken up on 19 August 1904. Iron-built and wood-planked. Sail area 1.709 square metres. Machinery built by the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Displacement 3.566 ton and as dimensions 80,00 (between perpendiculars)-91,85 (over all) x 12,50 x 6,53 metres. One direct driven expansion steam engine delivering 2.329 ihp via one screw allowing under steam a speed of 13,7 knots. Her crew numbered 300 men. The original armament consisted of 6-16cm A no. 1 guns, 8-12cm K.A. no. 1 guns, 6-3,7cm revolver guns (later increased with 8-3,7cm guns and spar torpedoes (later removed). The 17cm guns were removed in 1901 to be used for a battery at Sabang, Dutch East Indies.
Source
Archive Kon. Mij. De Schelde 1875-1970 (Municipality Archive Vlissingen) inventory number 214.1216.
