Pieter Siewers, on January 18, 1790 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1790
• Monday, 18 January
  Pieter Siewers (uit Flensburg) joins as ship gunner with chamber Rotterdam. Departure of the ship Canton bound for Batavia
• Thursday, 29 April
  101 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Canton on the Cape
• Thursday, 13 May
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Canton of the Cape
• Friday, 16 July
  64 days after departure from the Cape, 179 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Canton in Batavia
• Return
• 1791
• Thursday, 17 February
  216 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Helena louisa with chamber Amsterdam from Batavia
• 
  85224 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Helena louisa on the Cape
• 1791
• Friday, 20 May
  92 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Helena louisa in the Netherlands
  487 days after employment
  Resignation Pieter Siewers (Helena Louïsa), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The HELENA LOUISA had been built at Batavia in 1787. At the end of that year the ship had departed from Batavia to sail to the Cape, where it had cast anchor in March, 1788. In April, 1790, the HELENA LOUISA ran ashore at the Cape during a heavy storm; th

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 14287, folio 84

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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