Statement dated 12 August 1762 by several men that they were part of the Greenland whaler Negotie commandeur Jacob Mooij, leaving Texel on 20 April, arriving 10 May off Greenland, sighting on 9 June several whales, harrassed on 10 June by heavy wind hitting the ice and part of the stern lossing she was so heavily leaking that the whole crew handling 3 pumps not was able to keep her floating, in the afternoon were the masts cut and while she was sinking abandoned by her crew.(1)
Note
1. Commandeur between
1758-1772, in 1762 for Bettelem en Mol, Jisp, Netherlands. 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.
Source
Archive Notary
Philip Zweerts, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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