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Meermin was a 480-ton square rigged ship of the Dutch hoeker-type, with three masts, which was built in 1759 in the Dutch port of Amsterdam for the VOC's African trade. [ 3 ] [ nb 2 ] From December 1765 she was working the coastline of Madagascar , under Captain Gerrit Muller and a crew of 56, taking Malagasy men, women and children to be ...
Meermin (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmeːrmɪn] ⓘ) was an 18th-century Dutch cargo ship of the hoeker [] type, one of many built and owned by the Dutch East India Company.She was laid down in 1759 and fitted out as a slave ship before her maiden voyage in 1761, and her career was cut short by a mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people.
Meermin, a Dutch East India Company ship active between southern Africa and Madagascar, whose final voyage in 1766 ended in mutiny by the slaves: around half the crew and nearly 30 Malagasy died, and the ship was destroyed.
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A Royal African Company ship that carried more African slaves to the Americas than any other institution in the history of the Atlantic slave trade, was discovered buried underneath the sea by a ...
The last known U.S. slave ship is too “broken” and decayed to be extracted from the murky waters of the Alabama Gulf Coast without being dismembered, a task force of archaeologists, engineers ...
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The captain-turned-pirate sank the stolen ship 170 years ago, ... Sunken ship of the only slave trader executed in US may have been found off Brazil. Aspen Pflughoeft. July 13, 2023 at 11:10 AM ...