Casper Matthijs Claassen, on April 4, 1783 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1783
• Friday, 4 April
  Casper Matthijs Claassen (uit Middelburg) joins as second medical master with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Willem de Vijfde bound for Ceylon
• Saturday, 19 July
  106 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Willem de Vijfde on the Cape
• Sunday, 10 August
  22 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Willem de Vijfde of the Cape
• Sunday, 2 November
  84 days after departure from the Cape, 212 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Willem de Vijfde in Ceylon
• Return
• 1787
• Wednesday, 21 February
  1207 days after arrival in Ceylon
  Departure of the ship Draak with chamber Amsterdam from Ceylon
• Monday, 3 December
  285 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Draak on the Cape
• 1788
• Tuesday, 4 March
  92 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Draak from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Sunday, 29 June
  117 days after departure from the Cape, 494 days after departure from Ceylon
  Arrival of the ship Draak in the Netherlands
  1913 days after employment
  Resignation Casper Matthijs Claassen (Draak), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

On 26-03-1787 the DRAAK lost its masts and part of the rigging. For that reason the ship called at Mauritius, 12-04-till 22-10-1787.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13240, folio 11

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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