Dutch screw steamship 4th class Banda in 1880 according to the Colonial Account [Dutch East Indies] over 1881

Model NG-MC-1272 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Netherlands. Original url

Composite-built. Launched in 1873. Armed with 3 guns. Draught 3,5 metres. Horsepower 80nhp. Tonnage 322 tons. Maximum speed during a watch of 4 hours 7-8 geographic miles while under steam. The crew consisted on 31 December 1879 of 77 Europeans and 25 natives. Sent on 1 April from her station Northern Sumatra back to Surabaya, Dutch East Indies and there on 20 May temporarily stricken to be repaired. Arrived on 19 August 1873 in the Dutch East Indies.(1)

Note
1. Composite-built, on stocks at the shipyard of the Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij at Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Netherlands on 1 April 1872, launched on 12 December 1872, commissioned on 20 May 1873, added to the survey vessel to replace the Zr. Ms. Hydrograaf, commissioned as survey vessel on 11 November 1890, decommissioned, condemned and stricken in 1899, to be used afterwards as working vessel during the building of a lighthouse on the Aroebank. Displacement 659 ton, dimensions 42,00 (between perpendiculars) x 9,05 x 3,60 metres, 1-90 nhp one 2-cylinder horizontal directly working standard injection steam engine, one screw, speed 7,5 knots, crew numbered 80 men and an armament of 2 medium 30 pd guns, 1 rifled 16 cm gun, changed around 1875 by 1 rifled 16cm gun and 2-12cm guns.

Source
Dutch House of Representatives. Colonial Account [Dutch East Indies] over 1881.5.8 Attachment F. Royal Netherlands Navy in the Dutch East Indies in 1880.