Batavia
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Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | Batavia | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | sailing ship, merchant vessel | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | Grounding or wreck on rocks | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | Dutch Republic | Wikidata P8047 country of registry |
| Sea / ocean | INDIAN OCEAN | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Nearest coast | Australia | Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 59 km from land |
| Position | -28.4916, 113.7919 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
Batavia (Dutch pronunciation: [baːˈtaːvijaː] ) was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She was built in Amsterdam in 1628 as the flagship of one of the three annual fleets of company ships and sailed that year on her maiden voyage for Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies. On 4 June 1629, Batavia was wrecked on the Houtman Abrolhos, a chain of small islands off Western Australia.
As the ship broke apart, approximately 300 of the Batavia's 341 passengers and crew made their way ashore, the rest drowning in their attempts. Her commander, Francisco Pelsaert, sailed nearly 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) over 33 days in an open longboat to Batavia, present-day Jakarta, to get help, leaving in charge senior VOC official Jeronimus Cornelisz, unaware the latter had been plotting a mutiny prior to the wreck. Cornelisz tricked about 20 men under soldier Wiebbe Hayes into searching for fresh water on nearby islands, leaving them to die.
Location
- Recorded position: -28.4916, 113.7919 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: INDIAN OCEAN
- Nearest coast: Australia
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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Batavia (1628 ship) (revision 1378396581), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs and trimming at sentence boundaries; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
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