The Falcon (Valk) was wrecked near Fort Gelria on the Coromandel Coast in India. This was the VOC's headquarters for the Coromandel Coast. Cotton clothing was manufactured there on a large scale. From 1620 onwards, a gunpowder factory supplied the VOC in Asia.

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The Falcon was a war yacht stationed on the Coromandel Coast in 1637, alongside the Klein Hollandia and the Doornenburg. On September 12, 1638, the ship was at Paliacatta and under orders to sail to Ceylon; however, on October 13, a storm tore it from its anchors, and it was wrecked on the rocks.

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