Amsterdam

Date of launch1873
Place of launchAmsterdam
Type3-masted composite ship
GRT1407
NRT1369
DWT-
Length55.9 m (183.3 ft)
Beam12.8 m (42.0 ft)
Draft7.7 m (25.2 ft)

Later names: Ardjoeno (1886), Silo (1899)
Re-riggings: 3m barque (1886)

  • 1873
    Built of wood on iron frames at the Concordia shipyard of Meursing & Huygens, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She was rigged as a three-masted full-rigged ship carrying royals over single topgallant sails.

  • 1886
    Sold to other owners in the Netherlands. Rigged down to a barque and renamed Ardjoeno.

  • 1899
    Sold to Germany and renamed Silo.

  • 1902
    Heavily damaged in a typhoon near the Philippines and condemned at Nagasaki.


Pictures:
The Ardjoeno; Two crew members bending or unbending the main lower topsail in harbour.
Ardjoeno docked at Mobile, USA.
1897
Ardjoeno in the IJgracht, Amsterdam.
1895

Thanks to Jan Klootwijk for providing some of the information above.


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