An item reported the arrival in the afternoon of the 19th in the roads of Texel, Netherlands of the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Metalen Kruis (1) captain lieutenant A.L. Palm (2) coming from Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The Middelburgsche courant dated 13th reported that her etat major consisted of captain lieutenant A.L. Palm, lieutenant 1st class W.M. Visser, lieutenants 2nd class M.J.C. Lucardi, F.W. Hudig, J. van Herwaarden, E.J. Hoos, H.J. de Wal and W.C.A. Ziegenhirt von Rosenthal, officers of health 1st class W. Ruisch and 3rd class J. Meijers and officer of administration 1st class H.S. Bosschart.
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1. Screw steamship 1st class also called frigate, call sign GQNT, wood-built, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 21 March 1860, launched on 29 July 1862, ex-Soerabaja renamed in 1863, commissioned on 17 September 1863, building costs ƒ 752.588,82, decommissioned and condemned at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies on 20 September 1878, dimensions 58,00 (between perpendiculars) x 12,25 x 5,50 metres, a displacement of 2.030 tons, horsepower 700 hp, speed 8,5 knots, an armament of 16 guns (8 long 30pd, 8 rifled 16cm) and a crew numbering 225 men.
2. Aart Lodewijk Palm (21 November 1822 Surabaya, Dutch East Indies-27 July 1893 The Hague, Netherlands), retired in the rank of captain lieutenant.
