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Lost in the Indian Ocean

The Concordia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). She completed two successful return voyages to Asia between 1697 and 1706.

She left for her third outward bound voyage from Wielingen in Zeeland, the Netherlands for the VOC chamber of Zeeland. She arrived in Batavia (present-day Jakarta) on April 6th 1707. From there she made voyages to places like Coromandel (departure 31 May 1707) as the bookkeeping of the VOC shows (see references).

The sources that are still kept in the National Archives of Indonesia (ANRI) show that the Concordia left from Batavia on January 15th 1708 together with the flute Zuiderburg, for the return voyage to the Netherlands. They did not arrive at the in between point of the Cape like was intended. Both ships were lost with all hands in the Indian Ocean, near Mauritius according to a list of lost ships that is kept in the Dutch National Archives (the list mentions that the ship is a frigate, see references). The location is unknown.

Description

Yard: VOC yard of Delft

Part of a print after Reinier Nooms, mid 17th century. The original depicts a VOC and a WIC ship. The name of the ship is the Dubbele Arend. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
Detail of a print after Reinier Nooms, mid 17th century. The original depicts a VOC and a WIC ship. The name of the VOC ship depicted here is the Parel ('Pearl').
Length144.8 Amsterdam feet (41 m)
Tonnage900 ton (450 last)

References

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