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Tuesday 29 July 2014

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite lying at Vlissingen, Netherlands to be commissioned on short notice according to the Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 3 December 1836

An item dated Vlissingen, Netehrlands dated the 3rd reported that the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite still lying there in the Dokhaven was to be commissioned on short notice The Middelburgsche Courant dated 29 December reported that she would be commissioned on 1 January 1837.(1)

Note
1. Flush-decked corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands by C. Soetermeer 1827, launched 22 June 1830, commissioned 16 August 1830, reduced to 20-gun ‘kuil’-corvette 1837, decommissioned November-December 1851 at Curacao due to worse condition and not able to return homewards, sold to be broken up at Curacao 13 April 1852, with as dimensions 39 (between perpendiculars) x 10,5 (inner hull) x 4,10 (fore)-4,70 (aft) x 5,37 (hold below deck) metres and a displacement of <850 tons, an armament consisted of 18 short 30pd guns and 2-12pd guns after 1837 and a crew numbering 300 men (1830).