Dirk de Bruijn, on October 7, 1739 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1739
• Wednesday, 7 October
  Dirk de Bruijn (uit Helvoetsluijs) joins as senior (ship) carpenter with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Knappenhof bound for Batavia
• 1740
• Thursday, 11 February
  127 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Knappenhof on the Cape
• Saturday, 27 February
  16 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Knappenhof of the Cape
• Sunday, 5 June
  99 days after departure from the Cape, 242 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Knappenhof in Batavia
• Return
• 1743
• Friday, 4 January
  943 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Krabbendijke with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• Saturday, 13 April
  99 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Krabbendijke on the Cape
• Wednesday, 24 April
  11 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Krabbendijke from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Sunday, 18 August
  116 days after departure from the Cape, 226 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Krabbendijke in the Netherlands
  1411 days after employment
  Resignation Dirk de Bruijn (Krabbendijke), reason: repatriated

Beneficiary

• Lena Roelands, vrouw

Remarks

Month certificate: Yes / Debenture: No

The 108 men aboard the KRABBENDIJKE included 100 seafarers.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12975, folio 26

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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