An announcement reported the public auction on Saturday 2 August 09.00 o’clock at the naval establishment at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies of 4 condemned steam boilers , engine parts and boiler appendages originally belonging to the Zr. Ms. steamship Soerabaia.(1)
Note
1. Paddle steam transport, call sign GQVB, teak-built, laid down in 1865, launched during the night for a suitable tide in 1867, fitted out with new boilers at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies in 1877, guard ship at Surabaya 1 October 1885, decommissioned on 1 April 1892, condemned and sold for ƒ 17.550,00, while she was the largest ship ever built at that location was the slip lengthened, horsepower 220 hp, armament 2 (original 2 medium 30 pd)-4 (1885: 4-12cm guns for saluting) guns and a crew numbering 65-151 (1885: 123 Europeans, 28 natives) men.
Note
1. Paddle steam transport, call sign GQVB, teak-built, laid down in 1865, launched during the night for a suitable tide in 1867, fitted out with new boilers at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies in 1877, guard ship at Surabaya 1 October 1885, decommissioned on 1 April 1892, condemned and sold for ƒ 17.550,00, while she was the largest ship ever built at that location was the slip lengthened, horsepower 220 hp, armament 2 (original 2 medium 30 pd)-4 (1885: 4-12cm guns for saluting) guns and a crew numbering 65-151 (1885: 123 Europeans, 28 natives) men.
