Type: yacht

Built : Zeeland

Owner: WIC chamber of Zeeland

Complement: 46

Armament: 2 / 16 1639

Possible slave trade

A WIC ship called Leeuwinne made several voyages with enslaved people according to Slavevoyages.org. It is possible that it concerns the same ship, though a yacht is a relatively small type of ship.

Voyages:

1638 From the Gold Coast, the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra to Pernambuco. Of the 199 people taken on board, 177 survived the voyage.

1641 from Ardra to Pernambuco. Of the 316 people taken on board, 265 survived the voyage.

1642 from Africa to Pernambuco. Of the 297 people taken on board, 214 survived the voyage.

1643 from Ardra to Pernambuco under captain Pieter Lucifer. Of the 146 people taken on board, 133 survived the voyage.

1644 From the Gold Coast, the Bight of Benin and the Bight of Biafra to Pernambuco. Of the 333 people taken on board, 227 survived the voyage.

1645 from Ardra to Pernambuco. Of the 341 people taken on board, 278 survived the voyage.

• NA, Den Haag, OWIC, 1.05.01.01,  57; 185. Lijst van schepen en jachten te Brazilië.
• Slavevoyages.org.
  Slave Voyages.