The Drie Handelaars was leased by the VOC from Emanuel Fredrik Wirth in Amsterdam.

While in the service of the VOC, the Drie Handelaars sailed from Ceylon to Holland. The vessel was lost at Cape , however, when she dragged her anchors in a south easterly gale off of Muizenberg and was wrecked on the rocks.

Sources are conflicted about whether the skipper was Kornelis de Vries or Jan Kleijn

• Dutch-Asiatic Shipping.
  Details of voyage 8246.1 from Batavia.
• Dagregister Kaap 19-5-1789.
• Lesa la Grange, Martijn Manders, Briege Williams, John Gribble and Leon Derksen (2023).
  Dutch Shipwrecks in South African Waters: A Brief History of Sites, Stores and Archives [Unpublished].
• SAHRA Database.