Lam (Witte)1

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Last Edited09/09/2015
ShipVoyage* On 23 August 1653 the Lam (Witte) departed Texel enroute to (Cape Town) where it docked on 23 August 1653 Among those on board was Elias Giers.1,3 

Citations

  1. [S351] Grahame Naudé, "Dutch East India Company Shipping", Familia (DEIC Shipping) 43 Number 1 (2006): Details of voyage 0781.1 from Texel to Batavia
    Number     0781.1
    Name of ship     LAM (WITTE)
    Master     
    Tonnage     
    Type of ship     fluit
    Built     
    Yard     Amsterdam
    Chamber     Amsterdam
    Date of departure     23-08-1653
    Place of departure     Texel
    Arrival at Cape     22-12-1653
    Departure from Cape     31-12-1653
    Date of arrival at destination     22-03-1654
    Place of arrival     Batavia
    Particulars     On 28-10-1654 wrecked on a reef at Taiwan's north coast.
    Next homeward voyage     
    On Board     I     II     III     IV     V     VI
    Total                         1     111. Hereinafter cited as "Dutch East India Company Shipping."
  2. [S654] Mansell Upham 'What can't be cured, must be endured … Cape of Good Hope - first marriages & baptisms (1652-1665)', First Fifty Years, Uprooted Lives - Unfurling the Cape of Good Hope's Earliest Colonial Inhabitants (1652-1713), (http://e-family.co.za/ffy/ui66.htm), January 2012.
  3. [S647] Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope, Letters Despatched 1652-1662 to which are added land grants, attestations, Journal of voyage to Tristan da Cunha, names of freemen, &c. Vol III, H.C.V. Leibrandt; (Cape Town, South Africa: W.A. Richards & Sons, Government Printers, 1900), p.310. Elias Giers, of Stockholm, corporal; arrived in the flute Het Lam in 1653.. Hereinafter cited as Precis of the archives of the Cape of Good Hope.
 

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