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Wednesday 29 October 2014

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Zoutman arrived at Texel, Netherlands returning from the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 25 April 1867

An item reported that the screw steamship Zr.Ms. Zoutman captain lieutenant N.M.J. Kroef arrived on the 24th at Texel, Netherlands returning from the Dutch East Indies.(1)

Note
1. Screw steamship 1st, call sign GRDH, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 15 November 1859, launched in the afternoon of 20 September 1861 and condemned/stricken in 1871. Wood-built. Displacement 2.030 tons, as dimensions 58,00-62,84 x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, horsepower of 250 hp, a crew numbering 250 men and an armament consisting of 8 long 30 pd guns and 8-16 cm rifled guns. Her engines seemed in 1874 to be used for the Zr.Ms. Van Galen.