Last Edited | 09/09/2015 |
ShipVoyage* | On 23 August 1653 the Lam (Witte) departed Texel enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 23 August 1653 Among those on board was Elias Giers.1,3 |
Citations
- [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0781.1 from Texel to Batavia
Number 0781.1
Name of ship LAM (WITTE)
Master
Tonnage
Type of ship fluit
Built
Yard Amsterdam
Chamber Amsterdam
Date of departure 23-08-1653
Place of departure Texel
Arrival at Cape 22-12-1653
Departure from Cape 31-12-1653
Date of arrival at destination 22-03-1654
Place of arrival Batavia
Particulars On 28-10-1654 wrecked on a reef at Taiwan's north coast.
Next homeward voyage
On Board I II III IV V VI
Total 1 111. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping." - [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.
- [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.310. Elias Giers, of Stockholm, corporal; arrived in the flute Het Lam in 1653.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.