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Saturday 21 March 2020

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Triton visited Norway bound for the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 21 November 1837

An item referred to a tiding received from Hamburg, Germany reporting that the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Triton captain lieutenant Edeling which left the roads of Texel, Netherlands two weeks ago bound for Java, Dutch East Indies forced by storms entered the harbour of Christiansand, Norway on the 1st.(1)

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1. ‘Kuil’corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands July 1822, launched on 19 April 1825, guard ship at Batavia, Dutch East Indies 1842, intended sale on Friday 9 April at 11.00 o’clock lying at the east side outside the river of Batavia and an armament of 28 guns.