Dirk Schippers, on October 4, 1758 in the service of the Dutch East India Company

• Departure
• 1758
• Wednesday, 4 October
  Dirk Schippers (uit Middelburg) joins as ship’s boy with chamber Zeeland. Departure of the ship Noord-beveland bound for Batavia
• 1759
• Monday, 19 February
  138 days after departure
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland on the Cape
• Monday, 5 March
  14 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord-beveland of the Cape
• Wednesday, 20 June
  107 days after departure from the Cape, 259 days after departure from the Netherlands
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland in Batavia
• Return
• Thursday, 1 November
  134 days after arrival in Batavia
  Departure of the ship Noord-beveland with chamber Zeeland from Batavia
• 1760
• Tuesday, 8 January
  68 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland on the Cape
• Tuesday, 19 February
  42 days after arrival at the Cape
  Departure of the ship Noord-beveland from the Cape destined for the Netherlands
• Friday, 13 June
  115 days after departure from the Cape, 225 days after departure from Batavia
  Arrival of the ship Noord-beveland in the Netherlands
  618 days after employment
  Resignation Dirk Schippers (Noord-beveland), reason: repatriated

Remarks

Month certificate: No / Debenture: Yes

The two passengers included one condemned person; he disembarked at the Cape. Koert Rozeboom, commandeur of the return fleet, was in aboard the NOORD-BEVELAND.

Source citation

Nationaal Archief (Netherlands), Dutch East India Company, archive 1.04.02, inventory number 13100, folio 177

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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