Last Edited | 18/03/2013 |
ShipVoyage* | On 30 November 1697 the Lands Welvaren departed Batavia enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 17 February 1698. Among those on board were ten impotenten or political prisoners, the most notable of whom was the Rajah of Tambora Albubasi Sultan.3 |
Citations
- [S795] Website The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795 (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/das/search) "Name of ship LANDS WELVAREN."
- [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.
- [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 5988.4 from Batavia to Texel
Number 5988.4
Name of ship LANDS WELVAREN
Master Speelman, Jan
Tonnage 1145
Type of ship pinas
Built 1685
Yard Amsterdam
Chamber Amsterdam
Date of departure 30-11-1697
Place of departure Batavia
Arrival at Cape 17-02-1698
Departure from Cape 13-03-1698
Date of arrival at destination 26-06-1698
Place of arrival Texel
Chamber for which cargo is destined Amsterdam (541,235)
Particulars Aboard the LANDS WELVAREN was Klaas Bichon, commandeur of the return fleet; at the Cape he embarked on the ISSELT (5989).
Previous outward voyage 1752.4
On Board I II III
Seafarers 112 3 7
Soldiers 38
Impotenten 10
Craftsmen 9. "