Candia (ship, 1788)

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Candia
VOC Candia, copper engraving by G. Groenewegen 1789
VOC Candia, copper engraving by G. Groenewegen 1789
Ship data
flag Republic of the Seven United ProvincesRepublic of the Seven United Provinces United Netherlands
Ship type Mirror return ship
Owner Dutch East India Company
Shipyard Rotterdam
Launch 1788
Whereabouts 1796 dismantling
Ship dimensions and crew
length
150 voet m ( Lüa )
displacement 1150  t
Rigging and rigging
Number of masts 3

Candia was the name of a ship belonging to the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ; VOC), which only traveled once to East India in 1790 and never returned to the Netherlands.

construction

The Candia was an East Indiaman , which was built in 1788 for the Rotterdam Chamber of the Dutch East India Company in the Rotterdam shipyards as a 1150 ton ship with a length of about 45 meters.

history

On October 26, 1790, the Candia broke from the island of Goeree under the command of Captain Dirk Dirksz Varkevisser (1758-1805), who had previously commanded the VOC ship Middelwijk in 1786 and 1787, to Batavia . On departure there were 186 people on board. The Candia arrived in Cape Town on February 13, 1791 , and 20 people went ashore. Three people died on the voyage. On March 23, 1791 the Candia set sail again and arrived in Batavia on June 15, 1791, where she was sold in 1796 and scrapped for material extraction .

Contemporary representation

The Dutch artist Gerrit Groenewegen (1754–1826) created a representation of the Candia in the waters off Rotterdam in 1789. The engraving gives a good example of the appearance of a Dutch mirror return ship at the time.

literature

  • Bruijn, JR (2011). Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth Century . Boydell Press, ISBN 978-1-84383-622-3 . Pp. 130-334

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.vocsite.nl. . Retrieved February 27, 2020.
  2. ^ Brujin JR: Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth Century. Boydell Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84383-622-3 , pp. 334 .
  3. ^ Period: 1699, 1794: VOC: Opvarenden, Voornaam opvarende: Dirk. Retrieved April 9, 2020 (Dutch).
  4. ^ Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th centuries. February 2, 2015, accessed April 9, 2020 .

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