Last Edited | 11/02/2014 |
ShipVoyage* | On 4 January 1689 the Sion departed Goeree enroute to de Caep de Goede Hoop where it docked on 6 May 1689. Among the refugees who commenced this 17 week voyage wereAbraham de Villiers, Jacques de Villiers and Pierre de Villiers.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).
- [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 1576.2 from Goeree to Batavia
Number 1576.2
Name of ship SION
Master Berg, Simon van den
Tonnage 740
Type of ship
Built 1686
Yard Delft
Chamber Delft
Date of departure 04-01-1689
Place of departure Goeree
Arrival at Cape 06-05-1689
Departure from Cape 11-06-1689
Date of arrival at destination 16-08-1689
Place of arrival Batavia
Particulars At the Cape 1 seafarer deserted. The passengers who embarked at the Cape were French prisoners.
Next homeward voyage 5871.2
On Board I II III IV V VI
Seafarers 155 1 25 4 3 130
Soldiers 86 0 53 1 0 34
Passengers 0 0 0 20 0 20."