First Fifty Years - a project collating Cape of Good Hope records

Lek¹

F, #14412

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12/02/2015

ShipVoyage*

On 1 June 1691 the Lek departed Texel enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 1 October 1691. Among those on board was Johannes Jan-seun Swart.¹

Citations

[S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Details of voyage 1617.2 from Texel to Batavia
Number     1617.2
Name of ship     LEK
Master     Hoop, Teunis de
Tonnage     762
Type of ship     pinas?
Built     1686
Yard     Amsterdam
Chamber     Amsterdam
Date of departure     01-06-1691
Place of departure     Texel
Arrival at Cape     01-10-1691
Departure from Cape     31-10-1691
Date of arrival at destination     20-04-1692
Place of arrival     Batavia
Particulars
Next homeward voyage     5926.2
On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
Seafarers     151     11     17     7     41     100
Soldiers     92          15     4     41     40
Passengers     4          0     0     3     1."
[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.