The Mentor vessel foundered off the southern Cape coast in a gale. Tragically, many aboard were lost, with only two survivors. The survivors were found on 9 January by the French vessel Salomon, clinging to a piece of the wreckage.

An Invoice value of 150971 guilders was attached to the cargo of the Mentor (Bruijn et al., 1979) The Mentor’s cargo was owned by the VOC Amsterdam Chamber, but the Mentor itself may have been privately owned.

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