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.