Wouter Rovens, on July 28, 1747 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1747
• Friday, 28 July
  Wouter Rovens (uit Delft) joins as ship’s boy (hoogloper) with chamber Delft. Departure of the ship Naarstigheid bound for Batavia
• Saturday, 2 December
  101433 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Naarstigheid of the Cape
• 1748
• Thursday, 29 February
  89 days after departure from the Cape, 216 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Naarstigheid in Batavia
• Return
• 1751
• Monday, 11 October
  1320 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Bredenhof with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1752
• Saturday, 15 January
  96 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bredenhof on the Cape
• Saturday, 22 April
  98 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Bredenhof from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Sunday, 23 July
  92 days after departure from the Cape, 286 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Bredenhof in the Netherlands
  1822 days after employment
  Resignation Wouter Rovens (Bredenhof), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Before reaching the Cape the BREDENHOF called at Robben Island, 05 till 15-01-1752. Crew at the Cape: 86.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13985, folio 116

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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