Statement dated 5 September 1755 by several men that they were part of the Greenland whaler IJsland commandeur Luijtje Barendsz Molenaer, leaving Amsterdam on 15 April and on 19 April Texel, harrassed between 27 April-4 May by heavy northern winds and when they arrived at the ice in the morning of 21 May with east north east wind they sighted as much as 60 ships and they hit an ice floe. At starboard was a leak found and the next day again hit a floe. They were forced to return on 8 July arriving on 29 July off the Dutch coast by forced to stay at sea due to unfavorable winds even causing more damaged. They finally arrived in the Vlie on 5 August and 7 August at Amsterdam.(1)
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1. Commandeur between 1747-1769, 1777, in 1755 for Sappius en Dibbetz, Amsterdam, 3¾ whale 100 barrels blubber 125 quardelen whale oil quardelen whale oil. Alphabetische naam-lyst van alle de Groenlandsche en Straat-Davidsche Commandeurs die sedert het jaar 1700 op Groenland en sedert het jaar 1719 op de Straat Davis etc. Gerret van Sant. Published by Johannes Enschede, Amsterdam 1770, with hand written note until 1794.
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1. Archive Notary Hermanus van Heel, Stadsarchief
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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