Concordia (ship, 1696)
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The Concordia was a sailing ship owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The ship left Batavia on January 15, 1708 together with two other ships, the Zuiderburg and the Mercurius , heading towards the Netherlands. A longer stopover was planned at the Cape of Good Hope . The Concordia had 130 people on board. It was last sighted by the sailing Mercurius on the open sea south of the Sunda Strait on February 5, 1708 in bad weather.
history
The Concordia was built in 1696 near the Delft Chamber . She was quite a large ship for the time, with a carrying capacity of around 900 tons. Before her demise, she made two complete trips, including Deshima in Japan. On January 17, 1708, under the command of Captain Joris Vis, the Concordia set sail from Batavia for Europe. Of the 130 passengers and crew on board, several were women. They were on their way home. There were also some Balinese on board who were supposed to be deported from the Dutch East Indies to the Cape Colonies because of negative behavior towards the colonial power. Only the Mercurius reached the Cape of Good Hope. The captain of the Mercurius later reported that the Concordia and the Zuiderburg were last sighted together on February 5, 1708 on the open sea south of the Sunda Strait. At the time, the weather was very bad. On February 22nd, the crew of the Mercurius found flotsam. They discovered several objects in the water, including firewood, a box of tea, a bale of cotton, wooden carpentry tools, candles and staves for barrels. The Concordia was later officially listed as sunk near Mauritius in 1708. A well-known passenger on board the Concordia was Constantijn van Baerle, a representative of the Dutch East India Company.
Trivia
In 1832 a secret expedition led by Lieutenant Nixon led into the interior of Australia. There she allegedly discovered a group of around one hundred white Dutch people, including 10 women. They lived in a desert oasis in the Northern Territory , probably in Palm Valley . The existence of these people was first reported in an English newspaper called "The Leeds Mercury" in February 1834. There were other articles in a Dutch journal and in the Perth Gazette of 1837. The article in the Leeds Mercury newspaper claims that Lieutenant Nixon spoke to the settlers and the group leader in a broken form of old Dutch. The leader of the group stated that he was a descendant of a ship's officer whose name was "van Baerle". The expedition spent eight days with the group. Lieutenant Nixon stated:
- ... their fathers were compelled by famine, after the loss of their great vessel, to travel towards the rising sun, carrying with them as much of the stores as they could, during which many died; and by the wise advice of their ten sisters they crossed a ridge of land, and meeting with a rivulet on the other side, followed its course and were led to the spot they now inhabit, where they have continued ever since .
Despite intensive research, no trace or direct evidence of the settlers has ever been found. Most historians now believe the original story in the Leeds Mercury from 1834 was a hoax .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Details from De VOCsite accessed on January 4, 2013
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Daily report from Batavia; from the Indonesian State Archives; PDF file, accessed March 14, 2013
- ↑ Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis (2008). Details of voyage 6183.3 from Batavia accessed on December 28, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d e Ammerlaan, Tom (2004). Early Dutch emigrants to Australia: Chapter 8 accessed December 28, 2012
- ^ A b c Dutch Shipwrecks on the Western Australian Coastline (2008). Dutch Shipwrecks: Concordia accessed December 28, 2012.
- ↑ Bruijn, JR et al. (1987). Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18th Centuries . The Hague Nijhoff. OCLC 6166608 ISBN 90-247-2282-9 .
- ↑ a b VOC Historical Society (2008). What happened to the white settlers at Palm Valley? ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 28, 2012
- ^ VOC Historical Society (2006). The White Tribe Story ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 790 kB). Volume 6, Number 3, September 2006. accessed December 28, 2012.
