VOC ship Candia (1788)

Candia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC) which only once traveled for Asia in 1790 and never returned to the Netherlands.

VOC ship Candia, engraving by G. Groenewegen 1789
History
Dutch Republic
Name: Candia
Owner: Dutch East India Company
Builder: Rotterdam Dockyard
Launched: 1788
Maiden voyage: 26 October 1790
Out of service: 1796
Fate: Dismantled, 1796
General characteristics
Type: Spiegelretourschip
Tons burthen: 1150 tons
Length: 45.73 m (150 ft 0 in)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship

Construction

Candia was a East Indiaman ship built for the Chamber of Rotterdam of the Dutch East India Company in 1788 in the Rotterdam shipyards, as a 1150-ton ship with a length of 45.73 metres (150.0 ft).[1]

History

On 26 October 1790 the Candia left Europe from the island of Goeree for its travel to Batavia under the command of captain Dirk Dirksz Varkevisser (1758-1805),[2] who previously had command over the VOC ship Middelwijk in 1786 and 1787.[3] The ship left with 186 people on board.[4] It arrived for a stop at Cape Town on 13 February 1791, disembarking 20 persons. On the passage to Cape Town 3 persons had perished. Departing on 23 March 1791, it finally arrived in Batavia on 15 June 1791, where it was sold in 1796 and broken up.

Visible remainder

The Dutch maritime painter Gerrit Groenewegen (1754-1826) created a depiction of the Candia in 1789, while still in Dutch waters near Rotterdam, giving a good impression of the appearance of the Dutch Spiegelretourschip in those days.

Citations
  • Bruijn, J. R. (2011). Commanders of Dutch East India Ships in the Eighteenth Century. Boydell Press, ISBN 978-1-84383-622-3. p. 130-334

References
  1. "www.vocsite.nl". Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. Bruijn (2011), p. 334.
  3. "www.nationaalarchief.nl". Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  4. "The Dutch East India Company's shipping between the Netherlands and Asia 1595-1795". huygens.knaw.nl. Huygens ING. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
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