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Monday, 23 December 2019

Movements of the Dutch E.I.C. ships in the Dutch East Indies in August 1690

The National Archive of Indonesia published on her website tables of contents of the so-called Daghregisters (Daily accounts) of the Castle Batavia, HR no. 2506. Unfortunately they are in Dutch. In those tables you can find for instance information about the ships arriving at and departing from Batavia (nowadays Djakarta). I extracted the movements of the ships and vessels owned by the E.I.C. The dates mentioned below in the text are the register dates. See also on this weblog the notes dealing with cargo capacities and individual ships.

Aep, victualler, departed Batavia towards Tanjongpoura 31 August 1690
Bantam, ship, mentioned 1 August 1690, mentioned as homeward bound via Punta des Pedras and Nagapatnam towards Paliacatta with 71 inland soldiers for Ceylon 4 August 1690
Baren, small fluyt, departed Batavia towards bantam 23 august 1690
Bruijnvis, small yacht, arrived at Batavia coming from the West Coast of Sumatra 15 August 1690
Casteel Batavia, chialoup, departed Batavia towards the Sunda Strait 29 August 1690, arrived at Batavia coming from the Sunda Strait 30 August 1690
Cheribon, chialoup, departed Batavia towards Bantam 26 August 1690, arrived at Batavia coming from Bantam 29 August 1690
China, ship, news that she was damaged due to bad weather and age and returned to Mauritius for repairs 30 August 1690
Clipvisch, pantjalang, arrived at Batavia coming from Cheribon 9 August 1690
Egelenburgh, (small) fluyt, destined towards Siam 1 August 1690, departed Batavia towards Siam 8 August 1690
Elisabeth, small yacht, news that she was coming from Macassar with a cargo of rice was wrecked off Pouro Rakit 15 August 1690
Goudesteijn, ship, news that she was attacked N.B. 38½° by three Turkish pirates but left the heavy fight freely 30 August 1690
Hobre, ship, arrived at Batavia coming from the Netherlands with a cargo valued ƒ 105588:17:08 30 August 1690
Houtsnip, chialoup, news of the fight with a pirate in Banca Strait by which action 3 sailors were killed 18 August 690
Lijster, hooker, arrived at Batavia coming from Palembang 17 August 1690
Moercappel, yacht, mentioned 1 August 1690, destined towards Souratta 4 August 1690
Peperthuijn, small yacht, arrived at Batavia coming via Palembang from Jambij with a cargo of pepper 13 August 1690, ordered to sent the hulk with 20.000 Spanish realen towards Palembang 18 August 1690
Schiebroeck, small yacht, destined towards Bengal 11 August 1690, departed Batavia towards Bantam with a cargo valued ƒ 17350:15:6 19 August 1690
Sint Nicolaes, yacht, arrived at Batavia coming back from convoying the Chinese junks via Palembang 3 August 1690, decided to patrol between Batavia and Tagal 4 August 1690, departed Batavia towards Cheribon 21 August 1690
Sonnevis, pantjalang, arrived at Batavia coming from Sunda Strait 29 August 1690
Sparwou, fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming via Japara from Timor 20 August 1690
Sumatra, ship, arrived at Batavia coming from Bantam 13 August 1690
Vrijheijd, ship, departed Batavia towards Indermaijoe 2 August 1690