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Monday 20 October 2014

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Leeuwarden dry docked at Vlissingen, Netherlands according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 13 October 1865

An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship Zr.Ms. Leeuwarden entered on the 10th the dry dock at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands.(1)

Note
1. Screw steamship 1st class, on stocks at the navy yard at Vlissingen, Netherlands, Netherlands 6 December 1859, launched Saturday 13.30 o’clock 19 October 1861, condemned  1886, decommissioned 20 September 1885 and sold at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies for ƒ 26.050 23 January 1886, dimensions 58,00-62,84m (over all) x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, 2.030 tons displacement, 10 guns (10 rifled 16cm guns, 1881: 6-12cm guns, 4 rifled 16cm guns), 212-225 men, 8,5 knots speed and 250 hp horsepower.