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Wednesday 17 December 2014

Dutch East Indiaman Pouleron in 1683 in the Dutch East Indies

Yacht. Lying in the roads of Batavia, Dutch East Indies. The qualification varied between all waters and just in calm waters like the Eastern provinces, Malacca, Siam, the west coast of Sumatra, Palembang en Jambij. Needed badly her maintenance at Onrust and waited already too long. After her maintenance could she probably still serve some years. Measurement 300 last. (1)

Source
Archive V.O.C. 1602-1811 inv.no. 11250.

Note
1. Of theE.I.C.-chamber Zealand, on stocks by Cornelis Speldernieuw sr. at E.I.C-yard at Middelburg, Netherlands in 1668, launched in 1669, dimensions 142-143 x 35 x 12, Dutch measurement cargo capacity 383/300 last, measurement at Batavia, Dutch East Indies cargo capacity 345 last.