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The Rooswijk (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈroːsʋɛik]) was a ship belonging to the VOC (Dutch East India Company) that, according to recent, non-contemporary, news reports, sank in 1740. [1] The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England.
Netherlands, Utrecht, gold ducat 1724, recovered from the VOC shipwreck Akerendam. Akerendam was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built in 1724. On 19 January 1725, Akerendam left in convoy with two other ships, heading for Batavia with a crew of 200 people and 19 chests of gold and silver on board. [1]
Amsterdam (Dutch pronunciation: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ⓘ) was an 18th-century cargo ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC). [3] The ship started its maiden voyage from Texel to Batavia on 8 January 1749, but was wrecked in a storm on the English Channel on 26 January 1749.
Batavia (Dutch pronunciation: [baːˈtaːvijaː] ⓘ) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships [4] and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies.
Hollandia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC) which, on her maiden voyage, was wrecked on Gunner Rock, west of Annet, Isles of Scilly on 13 July 1743 causing 306 fatalities (276 sailors and soldiers and 30 passengers). The wreck was discovered in 1971 by Rex Cowan, a London attorney.
1845 British Admiralty chart showing Zeewijk wreck location. The Zeewijk (or Zeewyk) was an 18th-century East Indiaman of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated to VOC) that was shipwrecked at the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia, on 9 June 1727
The crew survived. This is the oldest known shipwreck in Australian waters. 5 September Buen Jesus y Nuestra Senora del Rosario ( Spain): The sailing ship, along with seven others, out of a fleet of twenty-eight, was lost during a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, between Florida and Cuba.
Fortuyn (also spelled Fortuin) was a ship owned by the Chamber of Amsterdam of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, commonly abbreviated to VOC) that was lost on its maiden voyage in 1723. [1] [2] It set sail for Batavia from Texel in the Netherlands on 27 September 1723.