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Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Dutch East India Company vessels wrecked, missing or laid up according to a list dated 1 December 1736

Length= prow.

Wrecked and lost ships:
Loosdregt, dimensions 145 x 38 x 16, 350, arrived in the Indies 1732
Hillegom, dimensions 160 x 42 x 17½, 500 last, arrived in the Indies 1734
Meermond, dimensions 145 x 38 x 15½, 350 last, arrived in the Indies 1731
Barbesteijn, dimensions 160 x 41½ x 17, 500 last, arrived in the Indies 1710
Alblasserdam, dimensions 130 x 35 x 15, 250 last, arrived in the Indies 1724

Still missing:
Groet, dimensions 145 x 37 x 15½, 3450 last, arrived in the Indies 1734

Laid up ships:
Komrus [=Kommerrust], dimensions 145 x 37½ x 15, 350 last, arrived in the Indies 1720
Heynkens sandt, dimensions 160 x 42 x 17½ x 500 last, arrived in the Indies 1719?
Hoogenes, dimensions 145 x 38¼ x 15½, 350 last, arrived in the Indies 1718

Source
Archive Family Mathias-Pous Tak van Poortvliet no. 60 (Zeeuws Archive at Middelburg).