Gerrit Smit, on October 17, 1737 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1737
• Thursday, 17 October
  Gerrit Smit (uit Wandorp) joins as ship gunner with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Kerkwijk bound for Batavia
• 1738
• Tuesday, 4 February
  110 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk on the Cape
• Tuesday, 18 February
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Kerkwijk of the Cape
• Wednesday, 18 June
  120 days after departure from the Cape, 244 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Kerkwijk in Batavia
• Return
• 1739
• Monday, 5 January
  201 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Landskroon with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 
  104586 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Landskroon on the Cape
• Arrival of the ship Landskroon in the Netherlands
  Resignation Gerrit Smit (Landskroon), reason: shipwrecked

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

azie

Lost between Ceylon and the Cape.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6059, folio 76

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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