Author: SHIPWRECK OF THE ADDER.
Title: VERSLAG aan den koning van het onderzoek naar de vermoedelijke oorzaken waaraan de zeeramp van ZR.MS. Rammonitor 'Adder' moet worden toegeschreven. Uitgebragt door de commissie, benoemd bij 's konings besluit van 21 Julij 1882.
Description: 's Gravenhage, Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, 1882.Large 8vo. Original printed boards. With folding plate depicting the Adder and folding plate depicting the probable location of the wreck. II,181 pp.The Adder was a Dutch ram monitor who sank on the North Sea off the coast of Scheveningen on Wednesday evening 5 July 1882. All 66 people on board were killed. The wreck was never recovered.There was a lot of criticism because it was delayed until Saturday before sending a ship to locate the Adder, while the monitor was expected to be in Hellevoetsluis on Wednesday afternoon. This exceptionally slow course of action on the part of the Navy Department has been heavily criticized. A monitor was a relatively small warship which was neither fast nor strongly armored but carried disproportionately large guns. They were designed for shallow waters and served as coastal ships and used by some navies from the 1860s.Added 11 newspaper clippings from 1882-1883 on the shipwreck, including 1 of the Bataviaasch Handelsblad.

Keywords: Dutch maritime history Holland shipwrecks