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Sunday 31 August 2014

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite departed Vlissingen, Netherlands towards Texel, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Vlissingse Courant dated 2 April 1839

Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands representiung after she was razeed

An item dated Vlissingen, Netherlands the 1st reported the departure a day earlier of the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Amphitrite commanded by H.F. Tengbergen towards Texel, Netherlands.(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).