Pieter Melsen, on October 9, 1792 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1792
• Tuesday, 9 October
  Pieter Melsen (uit 's hage) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Nagelboom bound for Batavia
• 1793
• Monday, 25 March
  167 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Nagelboom on the Cape
• Thursday, 11 April
  17 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Nagelboom of the Cape
• Wednesday, 3 July
  83 days after departure from the Cape, 267 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Nagelboom in Batavia
• Return
• 1794
• Thursday, 27 February
  239 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Schelde with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 
  84510 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Schelde on the Cape
• 1794
• Wednesday, 22 October
  237 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Schelde in the Netherlands
  743 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter Melsen (Schelde), reason: removed

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

door de Engelsen

In December, 1793, the SCHELDE had departed from China to sail to Batavia, where it cast anchor on 05-01-1794. One source indicates, that the ship did not sail for the Chamber Zeeland, but for Amsterdam. The dates of the call at the Cape are unknown. In

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6833, folio 179

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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