Concordia (1696 ship)

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The Concordia was a sailing ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The ship left Batavia on January 15, 1708 together with two other ships, the Zuiderburg and the Mercurius with quote Netherlands. A longer layover was provided at the Cape of Good Hope. The Concordia had 130 people on board. She was last spotted by the mitsegelnde Mercurius on the open sea south of the Sunda Strait on February 5, 1708 in bad weather.

History

Concordia was built in 1696 at the Delft chamber. She was a pretty big ship with a capacity of about 900 tons for that time. Before her demise she made two complete trips that also resulted in over -shima in Japan. On January 17, 1708 under the command of Captain Joris Vis, Concordia ran from Batavia with course to Europe. Of the 130 passengers and crew on board were several women. They were on their way home. There were also some Balinese who should be deported from the Dutch East Indies in the Cape Colony because of negative behavior towards the colonial power on board. Only the Mercurius reached the Cape of Good Hope. The captain of the Mercury later reported that the Concordia and the Zuiderburg were last seen together on February 5, 1708 the open sea south of the Sunda Strait. At the time there was very bad weather. On February 22, found the crew of the Mercurius flotsam. They discovered several objects in the water, including fire wood, a box of tea, a bale of cotton, wood carpentry tools, candles and staves for barrels. The Concordia was later officially listed as sunk near Mauritius in the year 1708. A well-known passenger aboard the Concordia was Constantijn van Baerle, a representative of the Dutch East India Company

Trivia

In 1832, led a led by Lieutenant Nixon secret expedition into the interior of Australia. There, they allegedly discovered a group of about one hundred white Dutch people, including 10 women. They lived in an oasis in a desert in the Northern Territory, probably in Palm Valley. About the existence of these people was the first time in an English newspaper called "The Leeds Mercury " reported in February 1834. Other items were in a Dutch journal and in the " Perth Gazette" of 1837. In the article the newspaper " Leeds Mercury " is alleged that Lieutenant Nixon spoke with the settlers and the leader of the group in a broken form of Old Dutch. The leader of the group stated by himself, he would be a descendant of a ship's officer, whose name means " van Baerle " was. The expedition spent eight days with the group. Lieutenant Nixon declared:

• Their fathers were ... Compelled by famine, after the loss of Their great vessel, to travel towards the rising sun, carrying with them as much of the stores as They could, falling on Which many died; and by the wise advice of Their ten sisters They crossed a ridge of land, and meeting with a rivulet on the other side, Followed its course and were led to the spot they now inhabit, where theyhave continued ever since.

Despite intensive research, no trace or a direct evidence for the settlers has ever been found. Most historians now believe the original story in the " Leeds Mercury " of 1834 was a hoax.

See also

• List of ships with the name Concordia