Jan Hopker, on May 14, 1788 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1788
• Wednesday, 14 May
  Jan Hopker (uit Amsterdam) joins as sailor with chamber Amsterdam. Departure of the ship Duifje bound for Kaap
• Monday, 15 September
  124 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Duifje in Kaap
• Return
• 1790
• Monday, 1 February
  504 days after arrival in Kaap
  Departure of the ship Pollux with chamber Zeeland from Kaap
• 
  86157 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Pollux on the Cape
• 1790
• Friday, 16 July
  85992 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Pollux from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 12 November
  119 days after departure from the Cape, 284 days after departure from Kaap
  Arrival of the ship Pollux in the Netherlands
  912 days after employment
  Resignation Jan Hopker (Pollux), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: No

Sailing to the Cape the POLLUX was overtaken by a heavy storm. Masts, rigging, and rudder were damaged, the hull got leaky. Part of the gunpowder was affected by water.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 6776, folio 87

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.

This data was last updated on April 7, 2014 by the source holder and first published on Open Archives on July 3, 2014. Originele record identifier is 1724751.

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