Jan Corneliszoon Rijp

Jan Corneliszoon Rijp (* circa 1570 in the Netherlands ; † after 1613 ) was a Dutch skipper at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century.

Life

Rijp is best known for his travels with the Dutch polar explorer Willem Barents in search of the Northeast Passage in order to avoid clashes with the warships of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets en route to India and the Far East .

In May 1596 Rijp was appointed captain of the second ship, which had been equipped by Dutch merchants for exploring the Northeast Passage. The first ship was under the command of Jacob van Heemskerk . Barents was the expedition's pilot . After the discovery of the island of Spitsbergen , the ships were prevented from continuing their journey by pack ice . Barents decided to turn to the east and the northern tip of Novaya Zemlyato circumnavigate, which he had previously reached in 1594. Rijp refused to follow this suggestion as he correctly assessed the dangers of the arctic winter and sailed back to the Netherlands. Barents was enclosed in the ice in the north of Novaya Zemlya and had to hibernate. The ship was lost and the crew had to return to the south in June 1597 in two dinghies. Barents died on that trip. The survivors of Rijp were picked up off the Kola Peninsula near the present-day city of Murmansk and brought back to the Netherlands, where they arrived on October 29th.

literature

• Dietmar Henze: Encyclopedia of the Explorers and Explorers of the Earth , Volume 1, page 165ff., Adeva, Graz 1978.
• Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek, part 4, [esources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/nnbw/#source=4&page=602&view=imagePane p. 1189] (ndl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerrit de Veer : Description of the Dutch and soulful three types of ships to sail after midnight in Cathay and Chinam . Hulsius, Nuremberg 1598, p. 111
2. ↑ A hot bath in the ice desert . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , October 2, 2011, pages 60 and 62.