Jan van Speijk gunboat jumping, 1831; Tears, gained of all true Dutch, to our never too forgotten hero, Van Speijk, Ridder Der Militaire Willems Order, and Komandant on the gunboat, no. 2. For Antwerp. Jumping into the air from Jan van Speijk's gunboat on the Scheldt for Antwerp, 5 February 1831. For this event an old woodcut is used with a representation of explosing another ship in the port of another city (possibly it explode the warship Alphen in the port of Curaçao in 1778). Under the plate A description of the event in four columns and a fresh in three columns.

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