Last Edited | 09/07/2012 |
ShipVoyage* | On 4 October 1655 the Weesp departed Texel enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 5 March 1656. Among those on board were Geertruyd van Riebeeck and Pieter van der Stael.2,3 |
Citations
- [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012.
- [S654] Mansell Upham 'UL01 What can't be cured, must be endured …', Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), "5 March 1656 : Weseph brings Geertruyd van Riebeeck (from Culemborg) & husband Pieter van der Stael) & 2 children."
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Number 0836.2
Name of ship WEESP
Master
Tonnage 560
Type of ship jacht
Built
Yard Amsterdam
Chamber Amsterdam
Date of departure 04-10-1655
Place of departure Texel
Arrival at Cape 05-03-1656
Departure from Cape 11-03-1656
Date of arrival at destination 24-05-1656
Place of arrival Batavia
Particulars Because of adverse winds for 4 weeks at Wight. On 28/29-09-1661 run aground and wrecked on the south shore of the Andaman Islands."