The Zeewijk was built for the Kamer Zeeland of the Dutch East India Company in Middelburg. The only voyage of the mirror return ship started at the fortress Rammekens on November 7th, 1726. The freighter stranded on June 9th, 1727 on the voyage to Batavia (former name of Jakarta ) in Half Moon Reef around 75 km off the western Australian coast in the Pelsaert area Islands , a group of islands in the south of the Houtman-Abrolhos archipelago .
Part of the crew was to the nearby Gun Iceland save, just a few kilometers from the wreck place the 1629 decline in Batavia . As with the drama of this downfall, there was murder , madness and violence among the Zeewijk survivors . There the survivors built a small boat called Sloepie within four months from the wreckage of the Zeewijk and other material and debris that they found on the surrounding islands . With this last 82 people reached the original port of destination Batavia on April 30, 1728.
