BEURS VAN AMSTERDAM 1826

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BEURS VAN AMSTERDAM 1826

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:38 pm

Built as a wooden hulled screw steamer on a yard in Amsterdam for the Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij, Amsterdam in 1826, the name of the yard I could not find.
1825 Laid down.
04 August 1825 launched under the name (DE) BEURS VAN AMSTERDAM.
Tonnage 352 gross ton, dim. 40.30 x 5.73 x 3.43m.
Steam engine manufactured by Maudslay & Co., London 120 nhp., speed ?. (English sources give built as a paddle steamer.)
Accommodation for 70 passengers.
Nov. 1826 delivered to owners.

She was built for the fortnightly service between Amsterdam and London.
In 1827, earned on freight and passage Fl 47.869 and her expenses were F 47.540, so a little profit was made.
1828 She had made 16 round voyages between Amsterdam and London.
1830 Transferred to the Baltic for a service between Lübeck and St Petersburg, with a complement of 22 men.
1830/31 During the Belgian uprising called back to the Netherlands and used as transport vessel for the Dutch Government.
Thereafter in the service between Rotterdam and Dunkirk.
1832 Again transport vessel for the Dutch Government.

01 Sept. 1833 during a severe gale on a voyage to Dunkirk, driven on the beach near Cadzand, Netherlands, after the gale she was in a position high and dry on the beach. Cargo discharged and engines dismantled and taken out of the vessel. The local fishermen after digging a cannel to sea refloated the vessel again. Was towed to Middelburg and then to Amsterdam for repairs and replacing of the engines.
After her repair used in the service between Amsterdam to Hamburg.
Was also used in some summer cruises from Hamburg to Helgoland.
She was used until 1848/49 in this service, and her engines built in a new paddle-steamer DE STOOMVAART which was built in 1849 at Amsterdam for the Amsterdamsche Stoomboot Maatschappij.

January 1849 sold to Geo. Fr. Egidius, Amsterdam and converted in a sailing cargo vessel, rigged as a three-masted barque for the timber trade from North Europa, her conversion took most probably place at the Vredehof yard on the Kadijk in Amsterdam. Not renamed.

1867 Sold to Basberg & Co., Svelvik, Norway and renamed BEURS.

31 May 1849 on a voyage from Riga loaded with timber bound for the Netherlands is the BEURS by Svalverort near the south cape of the Osel Island (Saarema) in a position 60 mile off Riga stranded and lost.

She had a strange name when translated, it is the PURSE FROM AMSTERDAM, the stock exchange in Amsterdam is named the Beurs, maybe she got her name from there. The stamp is designed after a painting made by Cornelius and Peter Suhr, and the BEURS VAN AMSTERDAM is seen steaming off the German island Helgoland.

Source: http://www.marhisdata.nl/main.php?to_page=schip&id=8140
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