Eendracht (ship, 1615-1622)
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The Eendracht (German: Eintracht) was a Dutch sailing ship in the service of the Dutch East India Company , which was built in 1615.
Ship description
The Eendracht was a three-master built in Amsterdam in 1615 . She had a carrying capacity of 700 tons and was armed with 32 cannons . There were about 200 crew on board.
to travel
For the maiden voyage under Captain Dirk Hartog , the Eendracht started on January 23, 1616 from Texel to Batavia (today Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies . After a storm separated the Eendracht from her escort ships, she sailed alone from the Cape of Good Hope through the Indian Ocean on a southern route to take advantage of the Roaring Forties . Off the route, Dirk Hartog sighted several uninhabited islands on October 25, 1616 and behind them the Australian west coast. He landed on Dirk Hartog Island, named after him, in the Shark Bay area . It was the second visit by Europeans to Australia (after Willem Jansz in 1606 in northeastern Australia) and the first to Western Australia . Dirk Hartog then mapped the coast between 26 ° and 22 ° south latitude before he reached Batavia in December 1616.
The Eendracht stayed in East Indian waters for a year before returning from Bantam to Holland on December 17, 1617 . She reached Zeeland on October 16, 1618.
The second voyage of the Eendracht led again from Texel (start on May 13, 1619) to Batavia (arrival on March 22, 1620) under an unknown captain. Then she sailed in the East Indian waters, for example to Hirado in Japan in December 1621.
The Eendracht went under on May 13, 1622 during a local trade off the west coast of Ambon in the Moluccas . The shipwreck has not yet been found.