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Monday 31 August 2015

Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Sumatra bound for the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated Saturday 7 September 1850

model NG-MC-348. Rijksmuseum Ammsterdam. Original link

An item reported that the Dutch corvette Zr.Ms. Sumatra captain lieutenant F.X.R. ‘t Hooft was to departed Den Helder, Netherlands bound for Vlissingen, Netherlands. There she was to be fitted out for a voyage towards Batavia, Dutch East Indies to transport the new appointed governor general Bruce.(1) 

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1, Sumatra also called Sumatraan, ‘kuil’corvette, on stocks at the navy yard at Rotterdam, Netherlands by C.J. Glavimans on 26 October 1843, launched on 18 May 1848, transferred to the navy yard at Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands on 28 August, there docked and coppered 9-23 October, commissioned on 1 May 1849, burned off Kema, Celebes on 16 May 1854, displacement 942 tons and as dimensions 39,5 (waterline) x 12,00 (inner hull) 12,30 x 5,00 (fore)-5,40 (aft) and a hold of 6,2 metres and an armament of 26 guns.