Willem Engels van Bergen, on May 12, 1721 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1721
• Monday, 12 May
  Willem Engels van Bergen (uit Der seijgh) joins as junior ordinary seaman with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Spiering bound for Ceylon
• Sunday, 23 November
  195 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Spiering on the Cape
• Monday, 29 December
  36 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Spiering of the Cape
• 1722
• Tuesday, 26 May
  148 days after departure from the Cape, 379 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Spiering in Ceylon
• Return
• 1725
• Tuesday, 20 November
  1274 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Voorburg with chamber Delft from Ceylon
• 
  109412 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Voorburg on the Cape
• Arrival of the ship Voorburg in the Netherlands
  Resignation Willem Engels van Bergen (Voorburg), reason: shipwrecked

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

azie

Lost at 31øS.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 12814, folio 125

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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