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Old 15-06-08, 07:17 PM
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calling all YD wreck detectives
righto, here's a mission for the YD wreck detectives.......

I've searched the usual sites and still can't come up with anything. . .

I'm looking for info on a steamship that definately sunk between Start Point in Devon and Dodman Point, Cornwall.

The ship is called the Mervestroom. She is possibly Dutch and was en route from Dordt (Dordrecht), Holland to Liverpool in ballast. She sprung a leak, was abandoned and then foundered. She had a five man crew who were all saved and landed at Brixham by a passing vessel . . . .

That's all i have. I need to find the dimensions, tonnage and engine type. Anything else will be a bonus. . . .

EDIT - forgot to add, she sunk between 15th and 20th October 1882
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Old 15-06-08, 07:42 PM
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Is this it? Alternative spelling Merwestroom?

Merwestroom 1919

Merwestroom 1919 built by Jonker & Stans, Hendrik Ido Ambacht | ex- Falcon, 1920 purchased from building Yard renamed Merwestroom, 1923 sold to France renamed St. Vincent de Paul, 1927 sold idem, 1931 sold idem, 1940 sold idem, 1941 scuttled at Hong Kong by own crew, 1942 raised by Japanese repaired renamed Kyuryu Maru, 24 February 1945 mined and sunk.
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Approx year?

Also have you tried swapping the v for a w? Dutch more likely to be W?

Was it salvaged? Hollandsche Stoomboot Maatschappij

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Sorry Jo and Adrian,

Forgot to add the date of sinking. OP now amended. She sunk between 15th and 20th October 1882.

I had tried some variations on the spelling, but still came up with nothing. . .
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- KRISTINESTAD
'Mervestroom (Merwestroom)', GOEDE, Dordrecht, d:o(ballast).
[01.06.1859 Finlands Allmänna Tidning no 125 ]


Whatever that lot means. 01/06/1859 - date of launch maybe?

EDIT: I think Finlands Allmänna Tidning is a newspaper
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- KRISTINESTAD
'Mervestroom (Merwestroom)', GOEDE, Dordrecht, d:o(ballast).
[01.06.1859 Finlands Allmänna Tidning no 125 ]


Whatever that lot means. 01/06/1859 - date of launch maybe?

EDIT: I think Finlands Allmänna Tidning is a newspaper
That's the only info on the net i can find as well Neil. I suspect you are correct and thats the date of launch or possibly construction ....
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That's the only info on the net i can find as well Neil. I suspect you are correct and thats the date of launch or possibly construction ....
Vessels were built at Kristinestad. There must be some form of register that it is on.
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ok, here is the info i have to go on.....A couple of bits have been edited for the time being, but if we find it, all will be revealed, including the position.

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This is all I could find..
MERWESTROOM 1 / kofschip / 48 last / bijlbrief No 64 (1830) yard C. Gips /Plaster shipowner Klerk and Voogd at Dordrecht / kapt Jacob Strobuur / flag D 8

MERWESTROOM 1/ schoener/kof/48 last/koopbrief nr 172 (1851) shipowner Pieter Smits Fransz

MERWESTROOM 2 / schooner / 54 last / bijlbrief No 177 (1851) yard C. Gips / Plaster shipowner Klerk and Voogd at Dordrecht / kapt Pieter Vernes / flag D 52

Some stuff on here too (and picture):
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