Model Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245208
drawing Ron van Maanen
An item dated Batavia, Dutch East Indies 19th December 1884 partly corrected the outbreak of cholera on board of the Dutch Zr.Ms. ram turret Koning der Nederlanden. On the Friday before two recently from the Netherlands arrived sailors were transported to the hospital dying the next day. The crew thought that the men became ill of eating too much inland fruit something what happened more often with newcomers. However what caused the problems , on the morning of the 19th were an inland and an European stoker brought towards the hospital caused by a severe fever. The ram turret was stilling in the roads but hoisted early afternoon the quarantine flag. A soon she was declared to be clean of the danger for contamination was she to depart towards Onrust to get rid of the termites which harassed her.(1)
Note
1. Laid down in 1871 at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands, launched on 28 October 1874, commissioned on 16 February 1867, decommissioned on 1 April 1895, converted into a guard ship stationed at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies and commissioned on 1 December 1899 and finally scuttled on 2 March 1942 to prevent capture by the Japanese. Her main armament consisted of 2x2-28xm guns and foremother 4x1-12cm guns. Designed by B,J. Tideman.
