Last Edited | 03/01/2015 |
ShipVoyage* | On 29 November 1662 the Hooghcarspel departed Texel enroute to the Cape where it docked on 10 April 1663. On the journey the vessel took the Portuguese ship Nostra Signora de pina de France prize, taking on board seven Portuguese as prisoners including two unnamed African slaves - a woman and her child. Also during the voyage one seafarer was thrown overboard because of 'sodomy.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.
- [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0983.1 from Texel to Batavia
Number 0983.1
Name of ship HOOGKARSPEL
Master Roelofsz., Meindert
Tonnage 212
Type of ship fluit
Built 1662
Yard Enkhuizen
Chamber Enkhuizen
Date of departure 29-11-1662
Place of departure Texel
Arrival at Cape 10-04-1663
Departure from Cape 23-04-1663
Date of arrival at destination 05-07-1663
Place of arrival Batavia
Particulars At the Cape Meindert Roelofsz. became master on the MEES; master on the HOOGKARSPEL after the Cape was Andries Brant. One seafarer was thrown overboard because of 'sodomy'. The 'passengers' who embarked at the Cape were Portuguese prisoners. The ship was wrecked between Tonkin and Japan in 1670.
Next homeward voyage
On Board I II III IV V VI
Seafarers 41 12 2 1 30
Soldiers 13 1 0 0 12
Passengers 0 0 0 7 0 7. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping." - [S815] Mansell G. Upham 'Documented Slave Arrivals at the Cape of Good Hope (1652-1677)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (Unpublished), 16 November 2014. "10 April 1663: Hoogcarspel offloads 2 unnamed African slaves (1 woman & her child - een Cafferinje met haar kint) taken from a Portuguese prize Nostra Signora de Pine de France."