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Dutch East India Company fluyt
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t Wapen van Hoorn ital Dutch Republic
Dutch Republic
Dutch East India Company
1619 Fluyt
~500 tons
t Wapen van Hoorn (Dutch for "The Arms of Hoorn") was a 17th-century Dutch East India Company fluyt with a tonnage between 400 and 600, built in the Dutch Republic in 1619.http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/voyages?clear=1&field_voynameship=WAPEN%20VAN%20HOORN The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 huygens.knaw.nl Huygens ING 2020-02-04 https://www.vocsite.nl/schepen/detail.html?id=11662 Wapen van Hoorn (1619) 2020 De VOCsite nl 2020-02-11 During its second voyage it grounded on the west coast of Australia, making it about the tenth ship to make landfall on Australian soil, and following Tryall 2 just a few weeks earlier only the second ship to be shipwrecked in Australian waters, albeit temporarily.Henderson 2007 16–17
Voyages
t Wapen van Hoorn departed Texel for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, on 27 December 1619, under the command of Roelof Pietersz. It arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on 5 July 1620, and reached Batavia on 8 December 1620. It then returned to Texel, leaving Batavia on 7 January 1621, and arriving on 17 July 1621.
She departed on her second voyage to Batavia on 26 December 1621. In June 1622 "at night in a hard wind", the ship ran aground near Shark Bay in what is now Western Australia.Bruijn Schöffer Gaastra 1979 181 It was eventually refloated, and arrived in Batavia on 22 July 1622. It departed Batavia under Captain Pieter Gerritsz. Bierenbroodspot on 25 December 1625. It stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 21 January to 9 February 1626, reaching Texel on 9 July.
Her final departure to Batavia was on 19 February 1627, under the command of David Pieterszoon de Vries. It stayed at the Cape of Good Hope from 16 July to 7 August. In September it made landfall at Shark Bay, noting corrections to Dirk Hartog's chart of the location. It arrived at Batavia on 13 October. It appears to have remained mostly in the Indies from then on, but is named as one of the ships that participated in the Battle of Abrolhos on 12 September 1631 off Pernambuco (present-day Brazil).
References
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Sources
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Bruijn J. R Schöffer I. Gaastra F. S 1 1979 Dutch–Asiatic shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries Nijhoff 9789024722709
Henderson G. 2007 Unfinished Voyages: Western Australian shipwrecks, 1622–1850 UWA Press 9781920694883
Further reading
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Q133908667 cs1 Heeres Jan Ernst CITEREFHeeres1899
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