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Thursday 28 April 2016

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr.Ms. Metalen Kruis arrived at Cape Town, South Africa coming from the Dutch East Indies according to the Dutch newspaper Rotterdamsche courant dated 29 March 1867


An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Zr. Ms. Metalen Kruis (1) captain lieutenant A.L. Palm (2) underway from the Dutch East Indies towards the Netherlands arrived on 13th February 1867 in the Table Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Everything was well on board.

Notes
1. Screw steamship 1st class also called frigate, call sign GQNT, wood-built, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam 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.