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Wednesday 23 April 2014

Norwegian bark Sophia sold at Den Helder, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Courant van Den Helder dated Saturday 12 August 1865

An item dated Den Helder, Netherlands the 11th reported that the evening before the bark ship Sophia with inventory was sold in the locality Tivoli, Den Helder for ƒ 4.525 to C. Former.(1)

Note
1. The newspaper Heldersche en Nieuwedieper Courant dated 1 October published an announcement in which C. Former asked for who was interested in shares of 500 guilders in a bark ship he owned suitable for the Baltic trade. Measurement 300 tonnen and as dimensions 31,55 x 4,76 x 4,50 (hold) metres. In the same time was could she also be bought. The newspaper Nieuwe Courant van Den Helder dated 4 November published an announcement of the Norwegian flagged bark ship Sophie win inventory on the 8th at Tivoli at 19.00 o’clock. She was then lying in the Koopvaarders Binnenhaven at Nieuwdiep, Netherlands.