The career officer Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke became Secretary for the Navy on 14 March 1861.

It put a temporary an end to plans to build new wooden steam frigates.

It was supposed to be a class of Kuilkorvetten, a corvette that had its main battery below the upper deck.

Considering that their size of 3,398 t made them bigger than most frigates in the Royal Netherlands Navy, this was a better designation.

In the meantime, many ships of the previous classes that were stationed in the Dutch East Indies would become unfit for service.

The Zilveren Kruis was the last class of wooden corvettes that the Dutch navy would build.

His successor Huyssen van Kattendijke had stopped the Djambi program and started the Anna Paulowna and Watergeus classes.

When Pels Rijcken succeeded to the office it was obvious that he would not make himself popular if he started yet another type of ship.

A closer look at the Zilveren Kruis' armament and propulsion shows a clear difference between the classes.

While the Djambi was outrun and outgunned by English steam corvettes, the same could not be said about the Zilveren Kruis.

While testing the machine, the screw did not achieve the projected number of turns per minute.

[10] In February 1867 the secretary for the navy mentioned that the Anna Paulowna could perhaps be made into a somewhat altered Djambi, especially because the wood that had been used would otherwise go to waste.

[12] On 11 April 1867 the second ship of the Anna Paulowna class was renamed to Zilveren Kruis[13] In September 1867, there was an announcement that the "Van Galen type ship" that had been laid down earlier, would not be finished, but that later in 1867 a "changed type Djambi" would be laid down.

The name would be Zilveren Kruis, and its construction would include the scantlings of the ship that had been laid down earlier.