An item reported that the boilers on board of the Dutch screw steamship 4th class Hr.Ms. Madura which ere of a new type and now 1,5 year used needed to be modernized. Fort this purpose arrived she in July 1892 at the naval establishment at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The panelling partly destroyed by termites was at the same time repaired and 1-3,7cm/1.5” quick firing gun mounted.(1)
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1. Call sign GQMW. On stocks 13 June 1879 at the Koninklijke Fabriek van stoom- en andere werktuigen, Amsterdam, Netherlands, launched on 21 March 1880, departed the shipyard on 29 June 1880, commissioned on 1 July 1880, departed towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies on 22 August 1880. Decommissioned and condemned for war duties on 12 February 1900 and to be used as pilot station ship (Moeara Djawa).
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Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1891-1892.
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1. Call sign GQMW. On stocks 13 June 1879 at the Koninklijke Fabriek van stoom- en andere werktuigen, Amsterdam, Netherlands, launched on 21 March 1880, departed the shipyard on 29 June 1880, commissioned on 1 July 1880, departed towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies on 22 August 1880. Decommissioned and condemned for war duties on 12 February 1900 and to be used as pilot station ship (Moeara Djawa).
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Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1891-1892.
