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Friday, 9 December 2011

Movements of the Dutch E.I.C. ships in the Dutch East Indies in January 1696

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.’s 2515-2516. 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.

Bekesteijn, small yacht, arrived at Batavia coming from Japan leaving the other 4 ships off Craoang 11 January 1696, departed Batavia towards Princen eiland 28 January 1696
Bovencasel, fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming from Bantam with a cargo of pepper 15 January 1696
Casteel Batavia, chialoup, mentioned 11 January 1696, arrived at Batavia 18 January 1696, departed Batavia towards the Cauw to collect the Company papers 23 January 1696
Cauw, small yacht, mentioned as coming from Toncquin while the Casteel Batavia was sent to her to collect the Company papers 23 January 1696
Civetkat, small fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming from Palembang with a cargo of pepper 19 January 1696
Dieren, fluyt, mentioned 11 January 1696, arrived at Batavia coming from Japan 12 January 1696, destined homewards on account of the chamber Rotterdam 13 January 1696
Eemlant, d(small) yachteparted Batavia via Japara towards Ternate 29 January 1696
Gent, ship, destined homewards on account of the chamber Amsterdam 16 January 1696
Geregtigheijt, chialoup, arrived at Batavia coming from Cheribon with ‘pagger’ laths and so on 3 January 1696, destined towards Banda to cruise for some days in the fairway 7 January 1696
Hobre, fluyt, departed Batavia via Macassar towards Banda 29 January 1696
Langewijck, fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming from Japan 15 January 1696
Oosthuijsen, fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming from Japan 17 January 1696
Princelant, fluyt, arrived at Batavia coming from Japan 17 January 1696
Susanna, small yacht, departed Batavia towards Banda 21 January 1696
Swarten Arent, small yacht, departed Batavia towards Cheribon to load rice for Timor and Amboyna and to transport towards these places 14 January 1696
Swaerte Visch, pantjalang, departed Batavia towards Cheribon 20 January 1696
Vogelstruijs, pantjalang, arrived at Batavia coming via Sunda Strait from Bantam departing her post due to bad weather 28 January 1696
Wijk op Zee, yacht, arrived at Batavia coming from Bengal 29 January 1696
Wind, small yacht, destined homewards 13 January 1696