The Fort Cormantijn was a slave ship of the Dutch West India Company (WIC). It made at least two voyages with enslaved people. For her last voyage, the clerk of the ship, Eustache Trevache, received instructions that are in the archives of the WIC. In this it states how they were to buy the enslaved people and that they were obliged to remodel the parts of the ship where they would be staying before they would arrive in Angola, completely sealing them off from the rest of the ship.

On January 30th, 1688, it left Texel fort the 'Coast of Africa' (Western Africa), where it arrived in Elmina on March 23rd to buy enslaved people. They left again on March 30th and sailed on towards the coast of Angola, where they arrived on the roads of Luanda on 8 May.

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There it apparently took a long time to get their cargo of enslaved people on board, because they stayed there quite a while. The eventually arrive in Paramaribo in Suriname on 20 April 1689. According to slavevoyages.org, 503 of the 539 enslaved people taken on board were still alive.

On the way back to the Netherlands, the Fort Cormantijn was lost. We doe encounter the skipper, Schepmoes, again as skipper on the Croonvogel in 1691.

The wreck has not been found.

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