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Saturday 9 December 2017

Dutch screw steamship 1st class Hr.Ms. Atjeh docked at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies in 1892


Model Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, NetherlandsOriginal source

An item reported that the Dutch screw steamship 1st class Hr.Ms. Atjeh was end March 1892 docked at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies including solving the problems with the rudder and screw.(1)

Note
1. Call sign GQCN, laid down at the navy yard at Amsterdam, Netherlands on 3 March 1875, launched on 6 December 1876, commissioned on 1 November 1877, converted at the shipyard De Lastdrager, Den Helder, Netherlands into an accommodation ship in 1906, commissioned on 8 November 1906, also used as training ship for sailors and Royal Netherlands Navy reserve, decommissioned as training ship on 21 May 1921, accommodation ship for the air force at Willemsoord until 1922, disarmed and stricken in 1929, sold for ƒ 23.501,00 to the N.V. Frank Rijsdijk’s industriële onderneming, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands to be broken up on 4 June 1935. Iron-built and wood-planked, when she was sailing could the telescopic funnel be lowered and the screw lifted, frigate rigged.

Source
Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1891-1892.