The ship Polanen made three succesful voyages to the East Indies and back to the Dutch Republic. On 21-11-1748 the ship left Texel for the fourth journey. Master Adriaan Waag didn't survive the voyage; he was succeeded by Hilde Hendriksz Hoek. Polanen didn't call at the Cape but and False Bay, and she arrived in Batavia on 25-09-1749. On 11-06-1753 the ship was wrecked close to a place called "Carpettie". This could be "Calpettij": the peninsula Kalpitiya as it is now called.
Description
Type: Hekboat, or hagboat or hackboat Built in 1737 for the VOC-Chamber of Amsterdam on the wharf of Amsterdam. Length: 130 ft. Tonnage: 650 tons On board: 170-175 A hekboat. Engraving by Adolf van der Laan.
The screw-driven steamship Falcon (De Valk) was a patrol vessel of the Government Navy, designed for coastal surveillance and light transport duties in the outlying regions of the Dutch East Indies.
The Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands holds many traces of maritime and underwater cultural heritage. Visit the stories in the Caribbean through this theme.
