Benjamin van Houte, on April 17, 1733 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1733
• Friday, 17 April
  Benjamin van Houte (uit Gouda) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Valkenisse bound for Batavia
• Saturday, 31 October
  197 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Valkenisse on the Cape
• Sunday, 8 November
  8 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Valkenisse of the Cape
• 1734
• Thursday, 21 January
  74 days after departure from the Cape, 279 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Valkenisse in Batavia
• Return
• 1739
• Thursday, 10 December
  2149 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Klarabeek with chamber Rotterdam from Batavia
• 
  104250 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Klarabeek on the Cape
• Arrival of the ship Klarabeek in the Netherlands
  Resignation Benjamin van Houte (Klarabeek), reason: shipwrecked

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

Azië

Wrecked between Batavia and the Cape.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12916, folio 21

VOC - voyagers, this index was developed through a joint initiative of the archives of Delft and Rotterdam, Zeeuws archief, Westfries Archief (Hoorn and Enkhuizen) and the departments of history from the Universities of Leiden and Ghent.

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